Transplant - Sanford Health News

Mom and son in Sanford Health hospital room

Young man receives pastor’s kidney, then mom pays it forward

Big Ask, Big Give workshop helps kidney patients look – and ask – for living donors

Jason Anschutz ⋅ 8 min read

Jan Germundson stands next to Ashton Hanson, who received a kidney from Germundson, in his hospital room.

Hometown boy’s plight moves NICU nurse to donate kidney

Jane Thaden Lawson ⋅ 22 min read

Cancer survivor: Two individual chatting in a restaurant

Cancer patients receive help from ‘miracle man’

Taya Ordahl ⋅ 8 min read

rainbow graphic with donate life symbol

Transplant surgeon’s personal connection with organ donation

Nadine Aljets ⋅ 5 min read

Doctor reviewing kidney transplant on a computer screen with a patient

Kidney transplant recipient: ‘I feel like a new person’

Jon Berg ⋅ 5 min read

kidney transplant dialysis: Jeff Prins and family laugh over coffee as their 3-year-old makes a funny face.

Kidney transplant, dialysis save life of Minnesota man

Jeff Prins is grateful for the person who chose to be an organ donor and the care of Sanford Health.

SHN Staff ⋅ 5 min read

Mother and son happy playing legos

Kidney transplant: A mother’s gift to her son

"I was just being a mom. He needed something I could give to him, and I did."

SHN Staff ⋅ 6 min read

Kidney transplant helps one woman beat the odds

Various health issues led doctors to believe Ginny Huettmann wouldn’t live to see 30.

SHN Staff ⋅ 6 min read