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Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, Transplant ServicesThe National Kidney Registry (NKR) announced today the expansion of its Donor Shield program, increasing the maximum allowable travel and lodging reimbursement from $2,000 to $3,000 per donor.
A 5-year-old’s need for a new kidney led to a paired exchange kidney transplant that united three families from across Minnesota.
University of Minnesota Medical CenterThe National Kidney Registry (NKR) announced the expansion of Donor Shield by increasing the maximum allowable lost wage reimbursement of four weeks to a maximum of six weeks.
The UW Health Transplant Center performed 64 paired kidney exchanges in 2020, more than any other transplant center in the country.
University of Wisconsin-MadisonMore than 12,000 people in the U.S. are on the national waiting list to receive a donor liver and about 1 in 5 patients, approximately 2,500 people, will die or become too sick before an organ becomes available. The Mayo Clinic explains living liver donation and who is eligible.
Mayo Clinic RochesterDuring the 2020 calendar year, 262 patients received kidney and/or pancreas transplants at Wake Forest Baptist Health, which is the highest annual total in the 50-year history of Wake Forest Baptist’s Abdominal Organ Transplant Program.
Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistAmy Infanger had a 1 in 3,000 chance of finding a kidney that her body would accept. Thanks to a living donor transplant chain that spanned across the country, she has a new kidney and a new lease on life.
Mayo Clinic RochesterOn December 9, 2020, Gianna Graw saved four lives and became the first patient to make a “good samaritan” kidney donation through Hackensack University Medical Center’s partnership with National Kidney Registry (NKR), an organization that facilitates living donor kidney transplants.
Hackensack Meridian Health Medical CenterRobert Montgomery, MD, DPhil, a pioneering surgeon and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute, has been appointed chair of the Department of Surgery. He will assume his new post on September 1, 2020.
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