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There were several factors that influenced Jorge Losch’s decision to become a living organ donor. He was inspired by his wife, Sara, who wanted to donate an organ but wasn’t able to due to health reasons, and he has two loved ones who received life-saving liver transplants.

When kindergarten teacher Trace Cimins told Amanda Kotanen, the mother of one of her students, that she needed to rush home and help her husband with his dialysis, Amanda went home and started researching how to become a living kidney donor. On Doug’s 56th birthday, he received the best gift he could ask for—one of…

In 2023, the Trinity Health Kidney Transplant Center in Grand Rapids celebrates its 50th anniversary. Since its opening in 1973, more than 2,800 kidney transplants have occurred, improving the lives not only of the patients but of their loved ones and caregivers.

Each year, Press Ganey recognizes a handful of standout organizations for putting the human experience at the heart of health care. Sharp HealthCare is pleased to announce that three Sharp hospitals were among this year’s Press Ganey honorees.

During the 2022 calendar year, 262 patients received kidney and/or pancreas transplants at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, which ties the highest annual total, first achieved in 2020.

The Penn Transplant Institute at Penn Medicine has opened a new Center for Living Donation which will expand Penn’s exceptional care for living donors, helping to maximize the number of lives saved through liver and kidney transplantation. 

UC San Francisco surgeons have performed the health system’s 20,000th solid organ transplant, making it just the third in the nation to reach that milestone.

The UW Health Transplant Center is one of the few transplant centers in the country that has transplanted more than 12,000 kidneys.

Veterans across the country who are in need of a life-saving liver or kidney transplant now can receive these procedures at one of the top transplant centers in the nation, MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, thanks to the recent inclusion of the MedStar Health program in the Veterans Health Administration network.

Last December, Sophia Jackson was watching the news when she saw the story of Vadrien Alston, a New York City police officer and mother of two who was in need of a kidney transplant. Jackson was so moved by the story that she decided to travel to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center to help.