DHHS, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Lewin contact: Clifford Goodman

One of the Nation's most pressing public health issues is the widening gap between the supply and demand for organs and tissues. The "Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative," a component of Secretary Thompsons's Gift of Life Donation Initiative, was launched in 2003 to increase organ donation by helping the national community of organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and hospitals to quickly identify, learn, adapt, replicate, and celebrate "breakthrough" practices that are associated with higher donation rates. To help the transplant community maximize every donation opportunity, HRSA has sponsored a second collaborative focused on increasing the number or organs recovered and transplanted per donor. This report presents observations of the practices of selected OPOs, hospitals and transplant centers that appear to be associated with higher rates of organs recovered and transplanted per donor.

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