Organ Procurement Transplantation Network Modernization Initiative

The current effort to remake the organ donation process is moving toward a critical juncture. The overhaul, launched more than two years ago as the “Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Modernization Initiative,” has now moved to the stage where the organizations that facilitate organ donations in the future will be decided. The current plan, which seeks to boost the quantity of donated organs to meet national needs, is to identify and keep the highest performers among the current group of organ procurement organizations, revoke the certification of the weakest of the current performers, and invite organizations to compete for the [...]