With site plan approval for alterations and additions from the City of Westwood Planning Commission, Midwest Transplant Network (MTN) will soon begin construction document production for a new Donor Care Unit at its Westwood, Kansas, headquarters.

The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations has named MTN President/CEO Jan Finn, RN, MSN to its Executive Committee.

For the second year of his Green Ribbon Campaign, former University of Kansas power forward Alonzo Jamison is partnering with a fellow donation advocate: his wife, Colleen Jamison.

MTF Biologics, a global nonprofit organization that saves and heals lives by honoring donated gifts, serving patients and advancing science, recently announced that Midwest Transplant Network President/Chief Executive Officer Jan Finn has joined the organization’s Board of Directors.

Midwest Transplant Network is celebrating a record year in 2019, surpassing its previous milestones for number of organs transplanted, organ donors, eye/tissue donors and laboratory tests performed.

he U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced a proposal aimed at increasing the availability of organs for those waiting for a transplant and improving the accountability of organ procurement organizations (OPOs).

Midwest Transplant Network announced Wichita-based radio personality JJ Hayes as its newest Green Ribbon Champion. Hayes has a personal connection to organ donation through his wife, Michelle, who received a lifesaving kidney transplant in 2017.

One year after Midwest Transplant Network named Sophia Dominguez-Heithoff a Green Ribbon Champion, the 19-year-old University of Kansas student says she is only beginning to spread the word about the importance of organ and tissue donation.

During his first year as a Green Ribbon Champion for organ and tissue donation in 2018, people around Kansas City began seeing Bryan Busby as something other than the Chief Meteorologist for KMBC-9 News.

As the mascot for the University of Missouri and a big fan of registered organ donors, Truman the Tiger is showing a new kind of team spirit this month.