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UNOS CEO Urges Congressional Action on Lifesaving Reforms
Proposes critical ways to strengthen the nation’s transplant system
UNOS and Donate Life America invite you to honor donors
Join National Tree of Life live stream December 16
UNOS continuously strengthens the security of the OPTN IT system
Cybersecurity protections for OPTN IT system
UNOS CEO Urges Congressional Action on Lifesaving Reforms
Proposes critical ways to strengthen the nation’s transplant system
UNOS and Donate Life America invite you to honor donors
Join National Tree of Life live stream December 16
UNOS continuously strengthens the security of the OPTN IT system
Cybersecurity protections for OPTN IT system
UNOS remains committed to strengthening the system
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) reinforces its unwavering commitment to serving the nation’s organ donation and transplant community and patients through its contract with the federal government.
Organ transplants are increasing
- 2023: More than 46,000 organ transplants performed and total kidney transplants exceeded 27,000
- 2022: U.S. surpassed historic milestone of 1 million transplants
- Liver transplants increased by 4.3 percent since policy implementation
- 29% increase in kidney transplants with policy change
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- What does UNOS do?
- About deceased organ donation
- Who decides who gets a donated organ?
- Who does what: The national organ transplant system
- Organ Procurement Organizations: Increasing organ donation
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Strengthening organ donation and transplant
- Collaborating to support donation and transplant internationally.
- The waitlist is better described as a giant pool of patients. Watch a video
- The transplant journey and the technology that drives it
Working together: Our nation’s organ donation and transplant system
- The nation’s system functions as a public-private partnership. View a diagram of its structure
- The OPTN, HRSA and CMS have different roles. Learn about the roles
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a nonprofit organization focused on saving lives. UNOS’ portfolio encompasses organ donation and transplantation, as well as broader public health projects, through its work developing new technologies and initiatives, conducting data-driven research and analysis, providing expert consulting services, advocating for patients, and being a leader in bringing communities together to save lives. For more than 40 years, UNOS has helped build a national donation and transplantation system that serves as a model around the world.
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Serving as the OPTN, UNOS has collected data on every organ donation and transplant event occurring in the U.S. since October 1, 1987.
Equity in access
Monitors trends related to access to deceased donor transplants among active transplant candidates.
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