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Those fighting to break apart the organ procurement system are using their media resources in a shockingly well-orchestrated and expensive smear campaign about organ procurement organizations (OPOs.) This campaign is being conducted by vested interests, and, targeted to dismantle the current locally-based, voluntary organ donation system and the national allocation system. Congress historically has ensured that money and connections do not determine who shepherds the life-saving gifts of organs in this country; however, that may be changing.
CMS OPO Metric Bias Against Large OPOs Research Summary
Continuing research into the controversial Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) metric for ranking the performance of Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) provides more evidence that unless CMS changes course, the metric will give …
Summary of Recent Johns Hopkins Webinar
The comprehensive and informative Johns Hopkins University webinar featuring a panel of true national experts rose above the misinformation, bad data, and unsupported sensationalism that has marked much of the policy discussion the past four years …
Wilmington City Council Resolution No. 212
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Council encourages the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to give full consideration to the guidance set forth by the 2022 National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine …
New Federal Rule on Organ Transplants Puts South Carolina Lives at Risk
Organ donation leaders and recipients in South Carolina advocate in a leading newspaper for SID&T non-profit system protection and reform.
A Call for Reconsideration of New Federal Organ Procurement Rule
Philadelphia City Councilwoman Cherelle Parker advocates in a telling op-ed for equity in organ and donation health care, in line with SID&T reform. “This is a matter of life and death here in Philadelphia and across the nation. While many are exhausted by the never-ending headlines about …”
Newark City Council Resolution No. 22-1041
SID&T applauds the Newark NJ City Council for following its lead in urging the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider the implementation of new rules by the previous Trump Administration, revising the requirement and procedures of the Organ Procurement Organizations, the new rules will make it difficult to facilitate organ transplants that will adversely affect the minority population …
Philadelphia City Council Resolution No. 220012
The Philadelphia City Councils unanimously adopts a resolution mirroring SID&T’s advocacy that calls on Secretary Xavier Becerra and the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to reconsider the implementation of a rule instituted by the prior administration that could upend our nation's system of organ procurement, particularly in communities of color, and to include the vast, specific needs of the organ transplant system in analyzing and improving the metrics …
New Jersey Assembly Resolution No. 212
SID&T lauds the New Jersey General Assembly for passing resolution #212, recognizing SIDT’s advocacy for non-profit organ donation by supporting NJ Sharing Network and opposing new federal rules on organ procurement organizations.
Mom Hears Late Son’s Heartbeat in 14-Year-Old Donor Recipient’s Chest for 1ST Time
When Maria Clark's son, Nicholas Peters, died nearly two years ago in a car crash, she said she knew immediately she wanted to donate the 25-year-old's organs.
"I said, 'We can't bury all of this magic, that we have to share,'" Clark, the mother of three surviving children, told "Good Morning America," describing her son as "the life of the party."
HBCU Medical School Coalition Focuses on Racial Disparities in Organ Transplants
A coalition of medical schools at four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), along with several prominent health organizations, recently launched an initiative to increase the number of African American organ donors and reduce transplant disparities in Black communities …