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2023: a year of more lives saved

2023: a year of more lives saved

Jan 10, 2024 | Improvement, Improvement feature, News, Patient, Trending

Celebrating memories made and milestones reached, thanks to the gift of life.

OPO partners with Black history museum to increase organ donor registrations

OPO partners with Black history museum to increase organ donor registrations

Feb 27, 2023 | Improvement, Improvement feature, News, OPO

Kia Potts tells us how LifeNet Health and a Richmond-area cultural institution worked together to change lingering misconceptions about organ donation.

Overcoming the financial obstacles to living donation

Overcoming the financial obstacles to living donation

Aug 19, 2022 | Improvement, Improvement feature, News, Patient

The National Living Donor Assistance Center is available to help living donors cover travel expenses, lost wages and other costs.

Building a team, serving a community: Pride at NEDS

Building a team, serving a community: Pride at NEDS

Jun 16, 2022 | Improvement, Improvement feature, News, OPO

New England Donor Services LGBTQIA+ outreach meets the community where they are.

10 things UNOS is doing to get the right organ to the right patient at the right time

10 things UNOS is doing to get the right organ to the right patient at the right time

Apr 20, 2022 | Improvement, Improvement feature, News

New technology, innovative data tools and collaborative research projects conducted by UNOS help drive continuous improvement in getting the right organs to the right patients.

What’s the best way to measure transplant program performance?

What’s the best way to measure transplant program performance?

Jun 30, 2021 | Improvement, Improvement feature, News

MPSC proposed changes to performance monitoring to go out for public comment in August.

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Understanding Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD)

Understanding Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD) by Andrew Klein, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer, UNOS.

Organ donor hospitals and transplant hospitals –how do they differ?

Donor hospitals are not subject to OPTN policies but transplant hospitals are. So who’s responsible for overseeing donor hospitals?

How UNOS uses data to help transplant programs improve

UNOS uses the same process for data requests from the OPTN as any other entity and can provide aggregated, limited or patient-level information about a variety of subjects due to our deep knowledge and understanding based on decades of experience.

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