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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.

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

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

Learn about the OPTN's dedication to assisting member institutions, transplant candidates, and living donors in the event of natural disaster.

Learn about an OPTN webinar for OPO, transplant hospital, histocompatibility lab, and kidney transplant professionals on virtual crossmatching trends.

The OPTN confirms that updated median MELD at transplant scores are in effect. The national median PELD at transplant value has decreased to 31.

Read a message from the OPTN Membership and Professional Standards Committee (MPSC) on best practices for organ verification and other topics.

Learn about two OPTN data monitoring reports that evaluate key measures of two related kidney policies that were implemented in 2022 and 2023.

Read the OPTN statement on disruptions in availability of Becton Dickinson (BD) BACTEC Blood Culture Bottles.

OPTN is seeking feedback on a proposal designed to remove barriers to increasing the number of transplants in 2026.