Saint Thomas Health Hospitals Join AJRR

Saint Thomas Health Hospitals Join AJRR

Saint Thomas West Hospital, Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital and Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital have become participants of the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR). Currently, only seven other hospitals in the state of Tennessee are participating in the registry, and Saint Thomas Health hospitals are the only Nashville-based hospitals. The local health system said the decision to join the registry was made to provide an additional layer of support to its existing programs that are part of the Saint Thomas Joint Replacement Institute.

The registry can help match patients, procedures, and devices to ensure that every patient is provided the best care possible. The AJRR serves as a central clearinghouse for data on total joint replacement procedures performed at participating healthcare facilities throughout the country and aims to carefully monitor the implanted devices throughout a recipient’s lifetime and trace revision rates in a database containing information about the patient, the surgeon who performed the procedure, and the site where the procedure took place in a single data source to help inform decision-making.