Description
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking a contractor to provide perfusion services at their Minneapolis location. The contractor will be responsible for providing perfusionists to cover open heart cases, lung cases, AAA cases, and open renal resections. The average number of hours per case that the perfusionists will cover is 8 hours. The contractor will also be required to provide services for cell saver/autotransfusion cases and TAVR cases. The hospital performs approximately 331 open heart cases, 109 lung cases, 28 AAA cases, and 17 open renal resections per year. The contractor will need to be able to provide services for emergency-based cases, which make up approximately 25% of the cardiac caseload.
Some key points to consider include:
* The program is fully outsourced
* The number of cases is expected to increase
* The contractor will need to be able to provide services for concurrent cases
* The hospital has 2 CV ORs and 2 hybrid rooms
* The contractor will need to be able to provide services for cell saver/autotransfusion cases and TAVR cases
* The hospital performs approximately 89 TAVR cases per year
* The contractor will need to be able to provide services for emergency-based cases