The sign up dilemma

Mid-South Kidney Donors

The Sign-Up Dilemma

What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Less Than 1% of DeceasedEnd Up Being a REAL Donor!

Unfortunately – whether organ donor sign-ups are 33% or 50% will make NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE in the outcome…

If Current Registry Donor Sign Ups EVERY ADULT in the USA …

• Total U.S. Population = 316,128,839• Adult Population = 240,257,918• Current Sign Ups = 100,000,000+

(now 41.6% of all U.S. Adults) • 100% Sign Ups = 2.4 Times Current rate• Current Deceased Transplants = 11,161• 100% Sign Up Level = 26,786 Transplants

Current Kidney Wait List = 100,253 and Growing!!!

Mathematically Impossible…RECOVERING KIDNEYS from LESS THAN

1% of people who die each year

is a losing proposition …

100,253 on Kidney Wait List (as of 4/25/2014) » 2013 Wait List Additions – 36,397» 2013 Wait List Removals – 29,647*

*7,422 either died or were too sick for transplant

Reality – Donor Sign Ups Are NOT Getting Converted to Transplants*

1.6% 4.6%

20.2% 73.6%

* Based on 2010 Data

Kidney Transplants are ONLY Meeting about 15% of Our Annual Wait List Needs…

Tennessee - Stuck at 450!!!

92% of TN Living Kidney DonorsRelated-Friend-Spouse

2013 Tennessee Living Kidney Donors

53, 49%

30, 28%

16, 15%

9, 8%

Related Friend Spouse/Partner Unrelated

What Happened to the Volunteer Spirit … only 108?

Top Eight States Perform 50% of Kidney Transplants in U.S.

CA - TX - NY - FL - PA - OH - IL - MI

USA Rank: TN = 13 MS = 34 AR = 37

Four Major Medical Centers in Tennessee for Kidney Transplants

Top 100 Kidney Transplant Hospitals Average 130 Transplants per Year

People are DYING for a Solution

90,000 per year

246 per day

10+ per hour

1 every 6 min

Is This The Best America Can Do?

Which Option Would You Choose? 2013 Average Life Expectancy Quality of Life

Living Kidney Donor Transplant 5,265 12 – 20 years Good to Excellent

Deceased Kidney Donor Transplant

11,150 8-12 years Fair to Good

Dialysis 415,000+ 5 years Fair to Poor

Kidney Wait List has over 106,000 candidates with an average wait time of over 4 yearsNote: Overall Medical Costs are LOWER for transplant patients than for dialysis patients.

http://www.bidmc.org/Centers-and-Departments/Departments/Transplant-Institute/Kidney/The-Benefits-of-Transplant-versus-Dialysis.aspx

http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/latestData/step2.asp?

We Have Hospitals, Medical Expertise and Capacity To Perform These

Transplants…235 Hospitals for Kidney Transplants

Source: http://www.srtr.org/csr/current/Centers/TransplantCenters.aspx?organcode=KI

We Have The Support Networks …

Best Network of Support Organizations Anywhere

• The U.S. has the infrastructure and the staff and the capacity to perform all of the transplants needed

• We continue to make medical advances in our procedures and techniques

• We fail, however, in having an adequate supply of organ transplant volunteer donors (both living and deceased)!

The ONLY Measurement That Counts is the Type and Number of Organ Transplants Year-To-Date • Stop focusing on donor registrations and

wait list numbers…aim for the prize!• Focus solely on the number of transplants

being performed (live and deceased) and the other measurements will become secondary and ultimately unimportant.

Keep Your Eye On The Ball …

Make Generating Organ Transplants Your Mission in Life!