Organ Procurement and Transplant Network Aims to Increase Amount of Transplant Procedures Per Year

The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network is “enlisting the help of healthcare institutions across the country for a special task force, called the Expeditious, to remedy” the issue of donated organs for transplants being discarded. Michigan Medicine's website has the news.

Certain factors “remain unknown in why different institutions deem donated organs unfit for use.” The Network is “looking to increase the amount of transplant procedures done a year in the United States from 28,000 to 60,000, about a 2% increase from the current numbers of the top performing hospitals for transplant procedures in the country and a 58% increase in deceased donor transplants overall.”

The University of Michigan Health Transplant Center will be giving feedback to the project, including “information about the barriers they see when it comes to performing these types of surgeries.”

OPTN will “begin working to implement strategies to assist institutions in increasing the amount of organ transplant operations they can perform, with the goal of decreasing the number of discarded organs hospitals experience each year.”