OPTN 2024-2027 Strategic Plan

Strategic plan

The OPTN Strategic Plan is a roadmap to help prioritize major initiatives of the OPTN over a three-year period. It was approved by the OPTN Board of Directors in June 2024. The plan is not intended to be an exhaustive list of the OPTN’s work or focus areas. It includes flexibility for the Board to add or redirect as needed to capitalize on emerging opportunities.

1 Increase opportunities for transplants
Improve offer acceptance for deceased donation and enhance access to living donation to increase patients’ opportunities for transplant.
2 Optimize organ use
Optimize organ use for transplantation, while improving equity to benefit all patients.
3 Enhance OPTN efficiency
Increase the efficiency of the OPTN through improvement and innovation to serve the greatest number of patients.
4 Support OPTN modernization initiatives
Collaborate to lay the foundation for the OPTN of the future.

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The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) leads the network of transplant hospitals, organ procurement organizations, and thousands of volunteers dedicated to honoring the gifts of life entrusted to us and to making lifesaving transplants possible for patients in need. Over 100,000 people are waiting for a transplant and rely on the organ donation and transplant community to strengthen the system to provide equitable access to lifesaving organs to patients.

The OPTN’s Strategic Plan encompasses a comprehensive understanding of the most important factors that currently impact the transplant community and a focus on building trust through action on opportunities most impactful to the community and ultimately, the patients we serve. The OPTN achieves these goals through partnership, convening the transplant community to pursue innovation and improvement while maintaining patient safety.

OPTN Vision

The OPTN promotes long, healthy, and productive lives for persons with organ failure by promoting maximized organ supply, effective and safe care, and equitable organ allocation and access to transplantation; and doing so by balancing competing goals in ways that are transparent, inclusive, and enhance public trust in the national organ donation system.

We commit our resources to achieve the goals outlined in our Strategic Plan while continuing our dedication to:

Increase the number of successful transplants.
Honor the selfless gift of life given by organ donors.
Safeguard the well‐being of patients and living donors.
Continuously improve the outcomes of patients on the waiting list, living donors, and transplant recipients.
Advancing equity within the transplant system and supporting vulnerable populations.

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