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Read the latest news articles and press releases about living kidney donation, the Donor Care Network, the National Kidney Registry, and Donor Care Network Centers of Excellence.

Windham Nurse Gives Kidney to Help Colleague

September 26, 2023Hartford HealthCare

After 39 years of nursing, at 60 years of age, Wendy Clark, RN, says she has found her calling. On July 20, she donated a kidney to a stranger. This set in motion a series of events that means a Hartford HealthCare colleague who needs a kidney will receive their organ in the coming months.

Hartford Hospital Transplant Center

Three-Time Living Organ Donor Hopes to Inspire Others to Donate

April 27, 2022Hartford Hospital

Inspired by a friend’s Facebook post about donating a kidney to a friend’s son, Anthony Cernera has since made three living organ donations – a kidney to a stranger named Lance in 2016, followed by stem cells to a leukemia patient in 2017, and most recently, a portion of his liver to another stranger, Martin, in 2020

Hartford Hospital Transplant Center

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