Christ Hospital Kidney Transplant program awarded top national honor

Cincinnati’s The Christ Hospital Kidney Transplant Program has been named a Center of Excellence by one of the country’s largest health and wellness companies.OptumHealth, in Golden Valley, in Minnesota, based the prestigious Center of Excellence designation on benchmarks developed by the company and its Clinical Sciences Institute.The designation is a boost for The Christ Hospital because OptumHealth will include the hospital in its Center of Excellence network. The network connects patients with complex medical problems to providers that demonstrate quality and cost effectiveness in handling them.Among the indicators examined are procedural volume and associated outcomes; stability of team; projected trends and technological advances in the specific field of medical science.More than 1,500 kidney transplants have been performed at The Christ Hospital since 1972.Writer: Feoshia HendersonSource: Michael Beauchat, The Christ HospitalYou can follow Feoshia on twitter here.