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News

Celebrating One Year of a World-Class Donor Care and Surgical Recovery Unit

August 31, 2023

One year ago — Sept. 1, 2022 — MTN opened its new Donor Care and Surgical Recovery Unit (DCU) after years of careful planning, preparation and training. Since then, we have cared for 131 donor patients from 29 area hospitals in our world-class DCU, providing 415 lifesaving organs to those who waited for a second chance.

MTN Achieves Top-Tier Rating From CMS

August 18, 2023

For the third consecutive year, Midwest Transplant Network is ranked among the top organ procurement organizations in the country by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services performance reporting. The 2023 OPO Annual Public Aggregated Report shows that based on 2021 data — the most recent data currently available — Midwest Transplant Network is rated as Tier 1A and is third in the nation for both donation and transplantation rates.