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Heavy rain and wind didn’t deter a group of Mayo Clinic Transplant Center staff on Monday, June 17 who joined a group of bicyclists raising awareness about the need for living organ donation.
Mayo Clinic in FloridaMayo Clinic ArizonaMayo Clinic RochesterNewYork-Presbyterian, one of the largest, most experienced transplant hospitals in the nation, performed 953 transplant surgeries in 2023, more than any other hospital in the U.S., according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical CenterThe Medical City Dallas Liver Transplant Program has earned certification from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), meeting the new program requirements and achieving excellent outcomes in its first year of providing liver transplants.
Medical City Fort Worth HospitalWhen Vincent Scafuri needed a lifesaving kidney transplant due to advanced polycystic kidney disease (PKD), his wife, Griselda Espinosa, offered to be his kidney donor.
NYU Langone HealthInspired by her work and her mother, Stephanie Donelan, a post-liver transplant coordinator at Mayo Clinic in Florida, gave her role as a transplant nurse new meaning by becoming an altruistic living kidney donor.
Mayo Clinic in FloridaMayo Clinic ArizonaMayo Clinic RochesterNearly 90,000 people in the U.S. are on the waiting list for kidney transplant, according to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
Mayo Clinic in FloridaMayo Clinic ArizonaMayo Clinic RochesterIn 2017, Carl Jackson was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease and congestive heart failure. “I didn’t get on the list,” said Jackson. “The transplant list right away. I was on dialysis for six years.” Jackson was considered high risk for receiving a kidney because of his heart condition. After a series of tests and an ICD, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, he…
Froedtert HospitalIn recognition of Donate Life Month, Loyola University Medical Center will host its 32nd annual candle lighting ceremony in honor of organ and tissue donors, their families and countless health care team members.
Loyola University Medical CenterApril is Donate Life Month, and Piedmont Macon Medical Center is hosting a Donate Life flag-raising ceremony to promote organ donations in the midstate.
Piedmont Atlanta HospitalIn 1999, Legacy opened its Transplant Services, giving patients with kidney failure hope for a brighter future. This year, our 2,000th transplant patient received the gift of a new kidney.
Legacy Transplant Services at Good Samaritan