News

9/26/23: The OPTN announces an update to the median MELD at transplant (MMaT) values, which affect many liver transplant candidates with exception scores.

9/26/23: Learn about a town hall meeting about plans for a task force to gather community feedback on improving the efficiency of organ usage and placement.

9/14/23: Learn about the offer acceptance ratio, a new risk-adjusted pre-transplant performance monitoring metric, which went into effect on July 27, 2023.

9/14/23: Learn about the Learning Congress, which concluded the OPTN DCD Lung Transplant Collaborative by highlighting the work of 29 participating hospitals.

9/11/23: Learn about improvements to OPTN policies on the medical urgency scores used to prioritize liver transplant candidates.

8/30/23: Learn about a new OPTN dashboard showing trends in integration between OPTN member organizations’ computer systems and the OPTN computer system.

7/27/23: The OPTN offers 14 items for review during the summer 2023 public comment cycle and encourages the community to provide feedback.

7/13/23: Learn about an OPTN webinar to help transplant program staff prepare for implementation of simultaneous heart-kidney and lung-kidney transplantation.

7/7/23: Read a message from the OPTN Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) on best practices for reducing risk and ensuring patient safety.

7/7/23: A data monitoring report shows that adult heart transplants are increasing following implementation of the updated allocation system in October 2018.