News

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.

6/1/23: Are you passionate about organ donation and transplantation? Interested in making an impact? Apply to serve as a volunteer for the OPTN.

5/9/23: Learn about a public dashboard that displays real-time status, historical data, and planned enhancements of the OPTN computer system known as UNet.

4/27/23: Learn about a change to the OPTN transplant label distributor and how members can create a new account to order labels the first time they log in.