Amanda Habermehl

ConnectLife
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Brief Bio

Amanda Habermehl started her career at ConnectLife in 2007. She has worked in multiple roles including Clinical Recovery Coordinator, Clinical Donation Coordinator, and Hospital Development Supervisor, and her current role as Manager of Hospital Development.
Amanda has experience and responsibility for directing daily operations of all services provided by the hospital development team who is responsible for organ and tissue donation outcomes in the region’s 26 acute care hospitals.
Prior to joining ConnectLife, Amanda was a Funeral Director.

Patient Group: Adult, Pediatric & Neonatal
Areas of Practice: Procurement

Alliance Presentations

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Highlights from the OPTN Donation after Circulatory Death Procurement Collaborative

Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at 2:00pm

The OPTN DCD Procurement Collaborative Improvement project aimed to support nationwide efforts to increase organs available for transplant by identifying and sharing effective practices regarding approaches to DCD procurement. Many OPOs have successfully increased DCD volumes while maintaining or increasing DBD volumes. This session will provide an overview of the Collaborative and will include demonstrations from two OPOs on how they implemented DCD procurement changes to their processes throughout the course of the Collaborative.

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Business Intelligence: Creating CMS Final Rule Insights for the OPO from Predictive Data

Thursday, October 07, 2021, at 2:00pm

The Alliance Conversation Series brings you cost-free, fast-paced collaborative opportunities that highlight successful donation and transplantation practices across the country. Through shared insight, multidisciplinary experts identify solutions to critical challenges affecting the community of practice and actively share them for open discussion and broader knowledge of effective practices.

Sessions are designed to be approximately 30-45 minutes in length and encourage real-time feedback and participation from viewers.

Overview: This session will discuss how LifeGift has adopted the new rule by utilizing data to create more decisive insights. We will demonstrate examples of the new metrics and how the OPO can surpass final rule benchmarks. We will examine the importance of data insights, data input, and improving documentation practices and their importance to the future of donation and transplantation.

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Data-Driven Performance: Going from 0 to 92

Tuesday, July 20, 2021, at 2:00pm

The Alliance Conversation Series brings you cost-free, fast-paced collaborative opportunities that highlight successful donation and transplantation practices across the country. Through shared insight, multidisciplinary experts identify solutions to critical challenges affecting the community of practice and actively share them for open discussion and broader knowledge of effective practices.

Sessions are designed to be approximately 30-45 minutes in length and encourage real-time feedback and participation from viewers.

Overview: Success for an OPO is measured by the volume of organs transplanted – numbers – because that means more lives saved. It is as simple as that. It is tempting to believe that there are quick fixes yet to be discovered that can make our path to success easier. The truth is simpler than that and if a laser focus is maintained on driving for, and achieving results, if competence and knowledge are nurtured, then your organization has a base upon which to build. Achieving results takes leadership, knowledge, and yes, passion, but most of all, those traits must be pared with a sound work ethic, showing up, not being timid but rather engaging the inevitable tension that accompanies our interdisciplinary work. We are here to save lives. We will talk about the nuts and bolts of key elements on our path to 92. . .

  • benchmarking and the knowledge it imparts,
  • leadership and inspiring staff,
  • the legacy of the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative’ s gift to us – a Change Package that is a living, breathing roadmap to success
  • the new CMS OPO performance metrics and how they crystalize focus on numbers / mission, and
  • work: engaging tension, solving problems, seizing opportunities and never being timid in our duty to save lives.

That is what took us to the “92”.

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