In a March 22 announcement, the Health Resources and Services Administration said it...
Additionally, the regional groups in charge of donations historically have reported their own performance data.
“There are few places where there’s more of a need than in Texas,” said Greg Segal, CEO of organ transplant advocacy group Organize. “Texas has excellent transplant centers. That’s one of the places you go if you want a really good transplant, so it’s really important the system works there.” LifeGift CEO Kevin Myer said in an interview Wednesday the organization had fallen out of the top tier only recently, and that LifeGift is updating technology, creating a data team and adding staff to refine the donation process and keep up with population growth. The OPO accounted for 84 preventable organ-transplant related deaths in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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