OPTN News

12/7/23: At a Dec. 4, 2023 meeting, the OPTN Board of Directors restored full member privileges for Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa.

12/4/23: Read a message from the OPTN Board President on waiting time adjustments for kidney transplant candidates affected by eGFR race-based calculations.

12/4/23: Learn about a correction to the programming criteria for auto-approving a MELD or PELD exception score for a group of liver transplant candidates.

12/4/23: A data monitoring report shows Black kidney candidates are receiving waiting time modifications after the implementation of new policies.

12/4/23: Read a report showing that lung transplants continue to increase six months post-implementation of the continuous distribution policy.

12/4/23: Access a one-year monitoring report regarding an urgent exception status policy for candidates who have an implanted heart assist device under recall.

12/4/23: View a list of studies related to OPTN topics that were presented at the 2023 American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting.

11/28/23: Learn about an OPTN lung data dashboard that offers enhanced insights into lung allocation under continuous distribution.

11/9/23: Learn about an OPTN webinar for organ donation and transplant professionals, addressing changes to the OPTN computer system access policy.

11/3/23: Learn about a webinar updating OPTN volunteers on the OPTN Modernization Initiative, launched in 2023 to better serve patient and family needs.