Today the National Kidney Registry announced that the Donor Care Network has reached a significant milestone with the addition of its 30th Donor Care Network (DCN) Center of Excellence. DCN Centers of Excellence are an elite group of transplant centers that meet a stringent set of best practices to ensure they offer the highest level …
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The National Kidney Registry Reaches 2,000 Active Patient Microsites for Kidney Patients Seeking a Living Donor
Today the National Kidney Registry announced the activation of its 2,000th patient microsite. The microsite program provides free websites and coaching to transplant patients seeking a living donor. The theory behind the microsite program is that if a patient can direct potential donors to a website that effectively tells their story, they will connect with …
National Kidney Registry Launches New Website for Donor Care Network Centers
Today the National Kidney Registry announced the launch of a new website for the Donor Care Network at www.donorcarenet.org. The Donor Care Network (DCN) Centers of Excellence are an elite group of transplant centers that meet a stringent set of best practices to ensure they offer the highest level of care and support to living …
National Kidney Registry Announces First Living Liver Donor Search Microsite
Today the National Kidney Registry announced the activation of its first microsite for a patient in need of a living liver donor. The microsite program provides free websites and hosting services for transplant patients seeking a living donor. The National Kidney Registry launched the microsite program for kidney patients in February 2019. The program now …
National Kidney Registry to Sponsor Kidney Donor Steve Wilson in Ironman World Championship
The National Kidney Registry is thrilled to announce its latest kidney donor athlete sponsorship: Steve Wilson, a living kidney donor who will be competing in the Ironman World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, October 6-8, 2022. Steve donated a kidney through the National Kidney Registry’s Family Voucher Program in February 2020 after seeing a Facebook post …
National Kidney Registry Reaches 100 Member Centers: University of California, Davis Becomes the 100th Center
Today the National Kidney Registry (NKR) announced that it has reached the 100 Member Center milestone with the reactivation of the University of California, Davis Transplant Center. The NKR is the world’s largest paired exchange program, facilitating over 1,000 transplants annually for patients who are seeking a better-matched donor and a better transplant outcome. In …
All Microsite Patients Now Have Donor Search Coaches to Increase Success Rates of Donor Search Campaigns
Today the National Kidney Registry announced that all 1,200 of its microsite patients now have donor search coaches. The NKR has partnered with the American Kidney Search Network (AKSN) to provide all current and future microsite patients with a coach. Coaches are experts in the donor search process and have successfully conducted a donor search …
The National Kidney Registry’s 1,000th Patient Microsite Activated
Today the National Kidney Registry announced the activation of its 1,000th patient microsite. The microsite program provides free websites to transplant patients seeking a living donor so patients can spread the word of their need for a transplant. Dr. E. Steve Woodle, a liver transplant recipient and Director of Solid Organ Transplantation for University of Cincinnati …
The National Kidney Registry Facilitates 5,000th Kidney Transplant
The National Kidney Registry announced the completion of its 5,000th paired exchange transplant, which took place yesterday at UCLA Medical Center. The UCLA recipient was a standard voucher holder whose donor facilitated an earlier chain of three transplants. The kidney came from a family voucher donor at Mayo Clinic Rochester. Dr. Jeff Veale, Professor and …
The National Kidney Registry’s 50th Low Eplet Mismatch Transplant
The National Kidney Registry announced that yesterday marked the 50th successful low eplet mismatch kidney transplant facilitated through the Kidney for Life (KFL) program. The KFL initiative utilizes the most advanced DNA sequencing technology to break down single bead antigens to the eplet level, opening up potential matches considered incompatible at the single bead level.