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Ballad Health, Niswonger Foundation Make Lifesaving Investment to Enhance Availability of Kidneys for Transplant, Reduce Costs of Care
May 09, 2024
JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee, May 9 -- Ballad Health, a community health improvement organization, issued the following news release:

More than 100,000 people are currently on the national transplant waiting list for a kidney. While waiting, most must rely upon expensive and invasive dialysis services to remain alive. Sadly, while so many people are waiting for a kidney for transplant, more than 8,500 kidneys donated in the United States each year never reach a recipient and are discarde . . .

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