HRSA webinar outlines Ventilated Patient Form to standardize OPO reporting

Aug 7, 2026

HRSA staff described the Ventilated Patient Form (VPF) as an API-first, standardized reporting criterion intended to capture ventilated patients with a documented pronouncement of death, enabling more consistent data across organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and the OPTN.

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Brianna Dobie, deputy director in the Division of Transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), opened the webinar and said HRSA is ‘‘thrilled’’ to bring stakeholders together to discuss implementation of the Ventilated Patient Form (VPF).

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