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 has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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