DHHS, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)

Lewin contact: Clifford Goodman

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has devoted considerable effort to achieving increased organ donation and transplantation rates by developing public awareness campaigns and identifying and replicating organ procurement organization donor hospital, and transplant center best practices. Despite a trend toward increased numbers of organ donors and transplants, a disparity remains between the demand for and supply of donor organs. In order to address tihs unmet need, HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration has implemented several initiatives which have assisted in increasing the supply of donor organs and the number of organs transplanted per donor. HRSA now seeks to identify and spread the best practices of transplant centers that are quickly adapting to the increased supply of donor organs in order to help transplant programs across the country effectively grow. This report, prepared by The Lewin Group,  presents observations of the best practices of selected high-performing transplant centers that have achieved high organ transplantation rates and efficiency in recovered organ use, while maintaining expected or higher than expected patient and graft survival outcomes.

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