OPTN News

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.

7/6/23: Read an OPTN two-year monitoring report that shows improvements in equity in access to kidney transplants for several key populations.

7/3/23: Find details on a data report about the impact of a heart allocation policy change made in response to a device recall.

7/3/23: The OPTN Board unanimously approved measures intended to improve the process that kidney transplant programs use to consider available organ offers.

6/30/23: Learn about a webinar in which several kidney programs share effective practices for the OPTN policy action on eGFR waiting time modifications.

6/5/23: Learn about two webinars held by OPTN committees for program staff, patients, and caregivers on improvements to MELD, PELD and Status 1A/1B criteria.

6/5/23: Learn about two national collaboratives that show how the OPTN supports the strategic goal of sharing effective practices to increase transplant.

6/5/23: Access the OPTN's patient-friendly resources in Spanish, including information about how to find a living donor, how multiple listing works, and FAQs.