• National webinar for transplant professionals to provide information about July 2024 implementation of pre-transplant performance metric
  Thursday, May 30, 2024
  Webinar recording available.
  

• Lung transplant rate increases by 16 percent one year after continuous distribution policy is implemented
  Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  A new monitoring report captures one year of post-implementation data.
  

• Virtual town hall addresses OPTN Board Separation and future Governance
  Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  Community town hall to be held on June 10, 2024.
  

• Annual kidney allocation calculator updates
  Wednesday, May 29, 2024
  The KDPI reference population is updated by June 1 of each year, as required by OPTN Policy.
  

• Goals exceeded by participants in two national OPTN Collaboratives aimed at sharing organizational learning, driving improvement
  Thursday, May 16, 2024
  Executive reports with final data are now available for both Collaboratives.
  

• Input sought on proposed protocol to increase kidney usage; virtual town hall May 20
  Tuesday, May 14, 2024
  Feedback will be posted to protocol page.
  

• Over 14,700 waiting time modifications completed for Black kidney patients one year after policy implementation
  Wednesday, May 8, 2024
  New report captures one year of post-implementation data (January 5, 2023 – January 3, 2024).
  

• OPTN Board approves updated variance policy
  Wednesday, May 8, 2024
  OPOs and transplant hospitals encouraged to recommend protocols for consideration.
  

• Updated median MELD at transplant scores in effect March 27
  Friday, April 19, 2024
  Scores are updated twice each year.
  

• Special public comment period to Establish Code of Conduct and Whistleblower Protection Bylaws
  Thursday, April 18, 2024
  Register for an OPTN webinar on April 25 to learn more about the proposed OPTN Bylaw addition.
  

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