A North Jersey toddler received a kidney from a San Francisco woman, and her father donated one of his to a man in Los Angeles on Friday as Hackensack University Medical Center participated in a continent-spanning chain of kidney transplants.
Kidney Transplant News
Kidney donation chains provide life-saving chances for patients
In March, when she was wheeled into the operating room at Newark Beth Israel Hospital, Beth Ard was doing a favor for someone she’d never met. But when her left kidney was removed and placed inside Lavoria Cure, Ard not only became the final donor in a life-altering series of six kidney transplants, she joined …
Kidney donations connect strangers in ‘Chain of Life’ forged by transplants
In the span of 36 hours, six patients in New Jersey and New York received kidney transplants in March from six living donors—all previously strangers—now connected in a rare six-way “Chain of Life.” …