Indiana Donor Network recovered 1,379 lifesaving organs for transplantation from 467 Indiana donors in 2025, saving 1,214 lives.
Through tissue and cornea donation, the organization recovered 1,558 tissues to help save and heal lives and restore sight from 15,734 Hoosier tissue and cornea donors.
“We continue to enhance our operational excellence, provide superior clinical expertise and provide unmatched care and compassion through all we do to save lives and serve donor families and our partner hospitals throughout Indiana,” said President and CEO Kellie Tremain. “Our utilization of the latest technologies available to make more donated organs stronger and more viable for successful transplantation significantly increased our abilities to save lives.”
Other major milestones achieved by Indiana Donor Network in 2025:
– Provided grief and counseling services to 3,102 Indiana donor family members.
– Experienced nearly 961,000 “yes” decisions to be a donor by Indiana residents; today, more than 4.5 million Hoosiers are registered organ donors.
– Reached nearly 206,000 Hoosiers through community presentations that offered education about organ and tissue donation and encouraged attendees to sign up to be donors.
“We achieved Tier 1-A status in 2025, the highest ranking an organ procurement organization can receive in the U.S. by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,” said. Tremain about Indiana Donor Network, which is the federally designated organ recovery organization that coordinates organ and tissue donation in Indiana and transplantation throughout the U.S.
More than 1,400 Indiana residents are part of 108,000 Americans currently awaiting a lifesaving organ transplant. Every day, 17 people die waiting while every 8 minutes, another person is added to the waiting list.