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Improving Living Kidney Donation & Transplantation

The National Kidney Registry is dedicated to increasing living kidney donation, ensuring better donor-recipient matches, and providing comprehensive support and protections for living donors.

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Kidney Donor Blog

Information for Donors

What is Donor Shield?

Timothy Wan, Esq., NKR General Counsel and Chief Litigator

Donor Shield is a comprehensive suite of support and protections offered to living kidney and liver donors by the National Kidney Registry. It includes living donor financial assistance for donation-related expenses not covered by insurance, as well as a wide range of help before, during, and after donation to make the donation process as easy, convenient, and safe as possible.

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Kidney Donor Stories

My Kidney Donation Story: Marie Palazzo

Marie Palazzo

This was my son’s second kidney transplant. His first kidney lasted him around 13 years. He got COVID and that’s how the first kidney failed. I’m retired now, but I was an ICU RN for more than 30 years, so I am quite familiar with organ donation.

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