News

12/2/24: View a monitoring report from the OPTN assessing two years of data after a change in kidney allocation policy.

12/2/24: Read about the OPTN Board's approval of an update to transplant program outcome monitoring criteria, to increase organ usage and reduce waitlist deaths.

11/25/24: HRSA invites public comment on its directive calling for new data collection. Comments must be submitted on or before Jan. 3, 2025.

11/25/24: HRSA invites comments until Dec. 31, 2024, on proposed OPTN data collection initiatives. This notice is distinct from the HRSA data directive.

10/31/24: Learn about the OPTN's implementation of a new policy revising the Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI), a policy change expected to increase equity.

10/25/24: OPTN is seeking feedback on revisions to the OPTN bylaws and governance documents.

10/25/24: Learn about an OPTN webinar for organ donation and transplant professionals, addressing questions on the optimization of OPTN Offer Filters project.

10/24/24: The OPTN Executive Committee has updated two OPTN regions due to an OPO merger. OPTN region 11 is incorporating 16 counties formerly in region 10.

10/18/24: Read about a report on the effects of liver allocation policy changes made to improve candidate priority based on medical urgency.

10/18/24: Find OPTN's report on social determinants of health - like environmental conditions where people live or work - among transplant patients.