New England Donor Services Blog
Organ Donation is of Vital Importance to the Black Community
The need for life-saving organ transplants is high in this nation’s Black communities. When compared to communities of other ethnicities and races, Blacks are disproportionately affected by the health burdens and diseases that lead to...
read moreBU Today Magazine: “Organ Donation System Is Thriving, Not Broken”
Despite fourteen consecutive years of record US growth in deceased organ donation and world leading transplant rates, there is nonetheless a cottage industry of critics seeking to distort these gains to paint a picture of...
read moreCMS Metrics Bias Against Large OPOs Endangers Organ Donation
Would you be surprised to learn that the green line above is an OPO projected to be CMS Tier 2 and the red line is an OPO projected to be CMS Tier 1? This makes...
read moreResearch Findings Show Racial Equity in Approaching Next-of-Kin for Organ Donation
A recently published peer-reviewed article in Critical Care Medicine, a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, found major that Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) approached families for organ donation at the same rates, regardless...
read moreDonation Experts Express Concerns that Policymakers were Provided Misinformation, Unsubstantiated Allegations and Defamatory Statements Rather than Facts.
The nation’s two foremost organizations representing expertise in donation and transplant warned federal policymakers this week that the US’ world leading system of organ donation and life-saving transplant will be jeopardized if policy is driven...
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