Meet the Transplant Living Story of Hope Contest Winners

Pre-implementation notice: Changes coming to donor acceptance criteria

Audience All heart, heart-lung, lung transplant programs: Physician Assistants, Physicians-Other, Program - Clinical Coordinators, Program Administrators/Managers, Program Directors, Programs Chiefs, Surgeons, Data Coordinators, Quality Coordinators, Quality...

Lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) calculator available on OPTN website

The lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) calculator is now available on the OPTN website.

More than 15,000 liver transplants performed in first two years of acuity circles policy

Two-year monitoring shows many states had volume changes within 10 percent of previous policy.

Why be an organ donor?

Currently, more than 100,000 men, women and children are awaiting organ transplants in the U.S.

1 organ donor can save up to 8 lives.

There are an average of 117 organ transplants every day.

We’re working to increase this number. You can help.

Meet the Transplant Living Story of Hope Contest Winners

The U.S. surpassed 1 million transplants in 2022

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Pre-implementation notice: Changes coming to donor acceptance criteria

Lung Composite Allocation Score (CAS) calculator available on OPTN website

More than 15,000 liver transplants performed in first two years of acuity circles policy