Organ Donation is of Vital Importance to the Black Community

by Sean Fitzpatrick | Mar 13, 2025 | Uncategorized

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 organ failure and result in the...

BU Today Magazine: “Organ Donation System Is Thriving, Not Broken”

by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jan 8, 2025 | Uncategorized

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 a US system that never increases donation and...

CMS Metrics Bias Against Large OPOs Endangers Organ Donation

by Sean Fitzpatrick | Dec 9, 2024 | Uncategorized

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 no sense! Well, a newly published peer-reviewed study identifies a substantial statistical methodology...

Research Findings Show Racial Equity in Approaching Next-of-Kin for Organ Donation

by Sean Fitzpatrick | Nov 5, 2024 | Debunking Myths, News

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 of race or ethnicity....

Donation Experts Express Concerns that Policymakers were Provided Misinformation, Unsubstantiated Allegations and Defamatory Statements Rather than Facts.

by Sean Fitzpatrick | Sep 15, 2024 | News

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 by misinformation,...