New England Donor Services Announces Record Number of Life-Saving Organ Donors in 2024
New England Donor Services (NEDS) today announced record numbers of life-saving deceased donor organ donations and transplants. In 2024, NEDS coordinated organ donations from 648 deceased donors resulting in 1,570 life-saving transplants. This record level of clinical activity represents a fourth year of consecutive growth and places NEDS among the nation’s top three organ procurement organizations (OPOs) by donor volume. Since 2020, NEDS has increased the annual number of organ donors by 80 percent.
Record Month for Organ Donation and Transplant in New England
In May, organ donation and organ transplants in New England attained a new monthly record high. New England Donor Services (NEDS), the federally-designated Organ Procurement Organization responsible for the recovery of organs and tissues in the six state region, reported it coordinated a record-breaking 61 organ donors that resulted in 160 life-saving transplants.
