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    Welcome to our website! The Transplant Network is a non-profit organization committed to improving the quality of life of transplant candidates, recipients, and their loved ones. To achieve this goal The Transplant Network lends support and encouragement to patients throughout all phases of the transplant journey.
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  • Donor Awareness

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    Saving and enhancing lives through organ and tissue donation would not be possible without the dedicated efforts of the many partners and advocates that promote donation. We would like to thank all of our volunteers and members of The Transplant Network. We would also like to express our appreciation to all of the organizations and communities that help us in our efforts to increase public understanding and support for organ and tissue donation as a critical public health issue. Special thanks goes to the Nevada Organ & Tissue Donor Task Force, the Nevada legislature and the Nevada DMV for the tremendous support and help they have given to us throughout the years. Above all, we are eternally grateful to all of our donors and donor family members who have given the most precious gift of life!
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  • Critical Data

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    More than 112,000 people are currently waiting for life-saving transplants; 1,800 of those people are children. Every 10 minutes another name is added to the national transplant waiting list. An average of 18 men, women, and children die each day from the lack of available organs for surgery. Last year 21,354 people were saved when a life-saving organ became available. Sadly, thousands of people died waiting for their second chance at life.
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Mucho Macho Man and his trainer: a Derby story with heart

Mucho Macho Man and his trainer: a Derby story with heart (CNN) — Each morning about 5, every morning without fail, Kathy Ritvo is at the track, always the most dependable 100-to-1 shot on the grounds. On the backside — that musky, muddy village where the horses live — she finds life, too. “I don’t miss any days,” she said. “I love it. It keeps me busy; it keeps my mind busy. I’m not a transplant patient when I’m at the barn, I’m a trainer.” You’ve never heard of any horse she has...
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Birthday brings both hope and uncertainty for transplant patient

Birthday brings both hope and uncertainty for transplant patient When he takes the Great Basin Brewing Company stage for a special Sat., March 5, 2011 show that falls on his 49th birthday, singer-songwriter and transplant patient Brother Dan Palmer will naturally reflect on the dichotomy of two prevailing themes in his life: hope and uncertainty, a precarious, dare-to-dream way of living. Almost two years after liver failure led to three near-death episodes — followed by three miraculous revivals — the former northern Nevadan is embracing...
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Need for Blood and Organ Donors Continues to Grow

Need for Blood and Organ Donors Continues to Grow Every single adult in the United States is carrying around the raw materials to save at least one life, and possibly more than one. Donation of organs, blood, bone marrow and even the stem cells contained in umbilical cord blood can help heal tens of thousands of people afflicted with terrible diseases, health officials say. But the need for most of these donations is growing, not shrinking. As of Feb. 10, 110,324 people were on a national waiting list for an organ donation, up more than 80...
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A family who lost a life waiting

A family who lost a life waiting Donor awareness has become an important cause in our family. Not because we are a donor family or a recipient family, but because we are a family who lost a life waiting.  My son, MacKenzie, died February 16th while waiting for a heart transplant. MacKenzie was 13 years old. He was born with a heart defect called Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, in other words, the left side of his heart never developed. After all 4 of his surgeries, he came out with flying colors. He was a normal little boy...
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