by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jun 3, 2025 | News
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 2023, and, yes, CMS data lags...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Mar 13, 2025 | News
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...
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....
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,...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Jul 31, 2024 | Milestone, News
In June 2024, organ donation in New England attained a new monthly record high when New England Donor Services as coordinated a record breaking 64 organ donors resulting in 154 life-saving organs for transplant from those donors. “This record month of...
by Sean Fitzpatrick | Feb 22, 2024 | News, Press
Now pending before the New Hampshire legislature is House Bill 1482, “An act relative to the sale of human blood and organs.” If passed into law, the bill would allow for the unregulated private sale of organs between individuals within the state....
