WE ARE BACK at Polar Park for the 2024 Blue & Green Walk/5k!! Join us on October 13th, 2024 at Polar Park in Worcester, MA (home of the Worcester Red Sox) for a day of hope, remembrance, and celebration. Sign up your teams today, or join as an individual walker or runner, and help us raise funds to support the work of increasing awareness about organ and tissue donation. We can’t wait to celebrate the gift of life with our community! Sign up here: https://ow.ly/Jy3p50SlUG1
New England Donor Services
Hospitals and Health Care
Waltham, Massachusetts 4,404 followers
Dynamic, Dedicated, Driven.
About us
New England Donor Services coordinates organ and tissue donation in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, the eastern counties of Vermont and Bermuda.
- Website
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http://www.neds.org
External link for New England Donor Services
- Industry
- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Waltham, Massachusetts
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1968
- Specialties
- Organ and Tissue Donation
Locations
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Primary
60 First Avenue
Waltham, Massachusetts 02451, US
Employees at New England Donor Services
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Alexandra Glazier
President & CEO at New England Donor Services and Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University School of Public…
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Nina L Udwin
Workplace Operations Lead and Health and Wellness Coach
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Mike Schadone
Resource Coordinator at New England Donor Services
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Jennifer Adams
Updates
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We are blown away by the talent on Team New England! Team New England is bringing home so many medals from the Transplant Games of America this year! Congrats to all the athletes and the 13 supporters. Thank you also to Team New England Sponsors - Eurofins Transplant Genomics and Bushnell Construction. 💙💚 #DonateLife #TGA2024bhm TGA Medals: Team New England Golds- 3 Silver- 9 Bronze-1
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June 2024 was a record-setting month for organ donation in New England with 64 selfless donors and their families making the decision to save the lives of patients in need of transplant. It was just last May 2023 when the previous highest number of 61 organ donors in a single month was achieved. Our dedicated NEDS staff of nearly 350 donation professionals were onsite at hospitals across New England, to support these donor families and to coordinate the complex process of making donation and transplant happen. We thank the donors and donor families of this past month and every month for making our mission to save and heal lives through donation and transplant a reality. #DonateLife
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In May, New England Donor Services was honored to authorize and coordinate the donation of the region’s first ‘partial heart’ for transplant. The generosity of this donor family was life-changing for the organ recipients. In particular, 4-year-old Jack Mangan became the recipient of this partial heart, a life-saving operation designed specifically for children. Jack was born with a congenital heart defect, and by the time he was 10 months old, he had undergone five cardiac operations. NEDS President and CEO, Alex Glazier said, “It solves a problem for pediatric heart patients because current grafts don’t grow with the child, which leads to additional surgeries." (paywalled $)
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An OPO’s core mission is to honor organ donors and ensure their decision to give life through donation is fulfilled. NPR’s Morning Edition aired a story today on Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP), a new technique used to improve the condition of the organs they recover for transplant. To date in 2024, NEDS’ use of this NRP technique has resulted in 149 life-saving transplants. NPR Health Correspondent Rob Stein traveled with an OPO and witnessed an organ recovery effort. The piece captures the complexity of the work OPOs perform and the tireless efforts of OPO staff to recover and make available for transplant as many organs as possible under difficult circumstances.
Doctors try a controversial technique to reduce the transplant organ shortage
npr.org
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NEDS Volunteer Michael Serke carries with him the ultimate gift every day. His life was saved thanks to a double lung and liver transplant from an organ donor. “It's a new world, but I am thankful. I play soccer with the kids, I walk our dog, Sadie. This is all we need to make us happy … to be together.” Read more of Michael's story below. #DonateLife
Shelton man's life has new meaning after life-saving organ donation; 'I was never going to give up'
sheltonherald.com
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Peggy Day comes from a large family and when her brother Tim needed a heart transplant the family rallied around him. Tim received his heart transplant nine years ago and since then both Peggy and her husband Dave have been advocating for donation in their community. They visit the Natick RMV each month to share stories about donation and provide information and materials for the office. Each April Peggy and Dave will visit local businesses that display information during National Donate Life Month and decorate their own home which has started conversations with neighbors about donation. Throughout the year they also host tables at community events, such as festivals and health fairs inspiring many to consider donation through sharing their brother Tim’s story. NEDS staff are often treated to Peggy’s cookies that she brings in when she and Dave help at the office, assembling packets and preparing materials for donor families. They also join us at our annual Blue & Green Walk, where they are wonderful cheerleaders along the route. “We are so grateful for our brother Tim’s miracle heart transplant. While we are certain that we will never be able to repay the incredibly generous gift of his donor and donor’s family, we are doing our best to give back and pay it forward as volunteers for New England Donor Services. We truly enjoy each and every activity that we do to promote the importance of organ and tissue donation and we look forward to continuing for years to come.” Thank you Peggy and Dave for all you do in your community and beyond to support donation! #DonateLife #VolunteerAppreciation
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Wishing you a safe & happy #FourthofJuly! 💙💚 #DonateLife Register your decision to be an organ & tissue donor at RegisterMe.org or in your iPhone Health App.
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New England Donor Services is proud to learn that Mark Brevard, NEDS Director of Multicultural Community Outreach, is joining the American Heart Association’s Connecticut Board of Directors. The American Heart Association (AHA) is a nonprofit organization that works to reduce deaths and disability from stroke and cardiovascular disease. Congratulations, Mark! https://lnkd.in/enEt37xE
American Heart Association announces new Connecticut board chair and members
https://easternstates.heart.org