DCN Center News

John and Stacy Reiser joke that their life is like a Hallmark movie — a classic boy meets girl, falls in love and gets married. Except in this Hallmark movie, the girl also saves the boy’s life. 

First, Cooper Thompson received prioritized status for a kidney when one woman donated on his behalf. Then, he received an actual organ from fellow Minnesotan Ali Hansen. The generosity of the two strangers led to his successful transplant at M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital.

Two-year-old Eva has shown her liver transplant scar to many grown-ups, but none were as special as the living donor who made history at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital – and saved Eva’s life. 

Medical City Healthcare hospitals lead North Texas health systems with eight “A” grades in the spring 2023 Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit upholding the standard of patient safety in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.

Clinicians and caregivers at Allegheny General Hospital will welcome nearly 100 members of organ donor families on Friday, April 28 at 11 a.m. for a ceremonial honor walk paying tribute to those who gave the ultimate lifesaving gift of organ donation.

Jean Adams is always on the move: packing gear, checking maps and plotting her next hike. At the end of 2022, the 59-year-old retiree set the goal of hiking the entire Ice Age Trail in 2023 to show what a kidney donor can accomplish.

Over the course of his 21-year surgical career, transplant surgeon Srinath Chinnakotla, MD, who also serves as a surgical director for both our liver transplant program and pediatric abdominal transplant team, has performed over 1,600 life-changing transplant surgeries, with a special focus on pediatric transplantation.

A new patient outreach program at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona is working to connect American Indians and Alaska Natives with the lifesaving transplants they need. In the Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona, one man says the program helped save his life.

Obesity poses a major obstacle to qualifying for a kidney transplant, particularly for minority communities disproportionately affected by obesity. Loyola Medicine’s advanced robotic surgery program makes it one of the few hospitals in the country to offer kidney transplantation to patients with obesity.