New England Donor Services Blog
New CMS OPO Performance Report is Flawed and Does Not Accurately Reflect Record Growth for NEDS in Organ Donation and Transplant
On the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day weekend, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued their Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) Public Aggregated Performance 2024 and 2025 Reports for data years 2022 and...
read moreOrgan 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...
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