Southwest Transplant Alliance names regional director
Faith Borunda has been named regional director, El Paso for the Southwest Transplant Alliance (STA), a Dallas-based organ procurement organization. Prior to her appointment, Borunda was the manager of clinical services in STA’s El Paso office. She served in that role... UNOS celebrates 34th anniversary founding
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) was founded March 21, 1984, by the leadership of the South-Eastern Organ Procurement Foundation (SEOPF). UNOS was intended to become the nation’s organ transplant network, an idea that was still in development as Congress worked...
OPO site survey process evolving and improving
New processes focus on efficiency, improvement
OPTN/UNOS Board members named
Members of the national organ donation and transplantation community have elected 25 members to the OPTN/UNOS board of directors, including a new president, vice-president/president-elect, vice president for patient and donor affairs and secretary.
Recently updated online help
See which UNet online help sections were recently updated. We based these updates on your frequently asked questions.
New addition to UNOS histocompatibility learning series
An educational needs assessment highlighted the need for some basic histocompatibility training for a broad spectrum of transplant professionals.
Training series highlights tools in the Data Services portal
Beginning next month, we will kick off an every other month training session where we will demonstrate one of the many tools available in the portal. The first tool we plan to highlight is the Kidney Waiting List Management tool.
Access UNOS Resources during Patient Safety Awareness Week
Our patient safety series includes topics related to extra vessels handling and storage, proactively averting errors, ABO verification in the OR, hemodilution errors and more.
Notice addresses organ preservation solution
Bridge to Life Ltd. and Waters Medical Systems have issued a field correction for specified lots of Belzer UW Cold Storage Solution and IGL Cold Storage Solution in 2-liter bags.