With a shared commitment to patient-centered care, Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA) and LCMC Health have launched a joint platform that is providing more opportunities to save lives and more time bedside for nurses, called iReferral.

LOPA, Lafayette General facilitate life-saving transplant.

National Donate Life Month celebrates gift of organ and tissue donation. LOPA (Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency), along with hospital and community partners, will honor organ and tissue donor heroes statewide with events and activities scheduled throughout National Donate Life Month (NDLM) in April. These tributes and ceremonies are especially poignant this year as 2025 marked the largest number of lives saved, and individuals healed, through organ and tissue donation in the state’s history.

Innovation and collaboration helped expand life saving organ and tissue donation.

LOPA (Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency) is highlighting the need for organ donation in multiethnic communities by sharing facts, donor hero stories and messages of hope from transplant recipients as part of National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month.

Louisiana heroes gave the gift of life through organ and tissue donation in 2024.

LOPA announced as a 2024 Partnership in Excellence Award recipient.

LOPA’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Brett Gordon, and two of LOPA’s Community Educators and Multiethnic Specialists, Kristie Gauthreaux and Shainne Williams, recently had the opportunity to attend the 32nd Annual Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation (AMAT) Conference in San Diego, California.

LOPA (Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency) is participating in National Multiethnic Donor Awareness Month (NMDAM) to increase awareness for organ donation in multiethnic communities. 

Organ donation & transplantation professional to lead statewide agency of 250+ clinical, operations and administrative employees.

While most coroner’s offices throughout the state work with LOPA to offer families the opportunity to help save and enhance the lives of others through tissue donation, the East Baton Rouge Coroner’s Office continues to provide more referrals than any other parish. Since taking office in 2012, Dr. Clark has honored over 650 individual donor heroes and their families through the gifts of tissue and eye donation.

LOPA (Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency) announced the release of a new children’s book, entitled “Ava’s Wish.”

Agency positioned to lead the nation in growth and innovation in the field of organ donation.

Connected by Life features news and issues surrounding organ donation and transplantation.

“Aliye’s Law” promotes organ, tissue and eye donation education as a required component of Louisiana’s high school curriculum.

Innovative initiative fills gap for families whose loved ones donate the gift of life.

This milestone comes almost a decade after the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act enabled people living with HIV to donate their organs to those on the transplant waiting list living with HIV.