Organ donations, transplants grow in Tennessee and Mid-South
A sign for the Mid-South Transplant Foundation welcomes church members at Brown Missionary Baptist Church in Southaven, Miss. to learn more about organ donations im 2019. Tennessee saw a growing number of organ donations and transplants in 2023. (Brandon Dill/Special To The Daily Memphian file)
In 2023, 47 of the nation’s 56 organ procurement organizations, including Tennessee’s, broke records in the recovery of organs for transplant.
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organ donation Mid-South Transplant Foundation Tennessee Donor Services organ transplantAisling Mäki
Aisling Mäki covers health care, banking and finance, technology and professions. After launching her career in news two decades ago, she worked in public relations for almost a decade before returning to journalism in 2022.
As a health care reporter, she’s collaborated with The Carter Center, earned awards from the Associated Press and Society of Professional Journalists and won a 2024 Tennessee Press Association first-place prize for her series on discrepancies in Shelby County life expectancy by ZIP code.
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