The Chain is an innovative, digital short‐form documentary that uses five interwoven story lines to provide a compelling portrait of organ donation in the United States.
Kidney Transplant News
The Gift of Life: Canon City Woman Thankful For Kidney Donation
Emily Garcia has just begun a brand new chapter in her life. A life without dialysis, needles and blood transfusions. A life with a more certain future and more time with her family. Garcia, 34, received perhaps the most significant Christmas gift of her lifetime when she received a kidney Dec. 19.
Curtis Hendrix, College Student Who Donated His Left Kidney to Stranger
In June 2011, Curtis Hendrix called the Clinic’s transplant center to find out how he could donate one of his kidneys. Four months later, following a series of interviews with various physicians and a battery of medical tests, he was approved for the surgery. Hendrix was one of 48 living kidney donors who had surgery …
Metro Man Gives in Chain of Life
A metro man’s gift of a kidney to a complete stranger wound up saving more than one life.
Kidney Donor Sparks 30-Person Chain
CNN speaks with the man was the first link in the world’s longest living kidney donor chain.
Longest Organ Donor Chain Links 60 People In US
The world’s longest chain of organ donations has been completed in the US, with 30 patients receiving a kidney from 30 living donors. The complicated process lasted for four months and involved 17 hospitals across 11 states.
Record Kidney Transplant Chain
It is being called the world’s longest kidney transplant chain, with 30 recipients across the United States. WLS reports.
Kidney Donation Leads to Unexpected Kindness
We are grateful to The New York Times for this story, which took us inside a remarkable event, a kind of relay race of generosity. 90,000 people need kidney transplants tonight, 4,500 will die each year. But the man who founded the National Kidney Registry figured out that all of us would find it in …
Two Local Residents Part Of Record Kidney Donation Chain
A single good deed helped save the lives of 30 people. Two Chicago area residents are among 60 people who took part in the longest kidney transplant chain ever.
60 Lives, 30 Kidneys, All Linked
A donation by a Good Samaritan, Rick Ruzzamenti, set in motion a 60-person chain of transplants that ended with a kidney for Donald C. Terry Jr. Rick Ruzzamenti admits to being a tad impulsive. He traded his Catholicism for Buddhism in a revelatory flash. He married a Vietnamese woman he had only just met. And …