Originally founded in 1973 as the Midwest Organ Bank, the organization has provided transplant and procurement services to transplant centers and hospitals throughout the region for more than a quarter of a century. Midwest Organ Bank was the first independent organ procurement organization in the country. In addition to providing organ procurement and histocompatability testing, in 1990 the organization responded to community request to provide tissue procurement services then added eye banking services in 1998 upon acquiring the Kansas City Eye Bank. To more accurately reflect the changing scope of its services while retaining a link to the past, the name was changed to the Midwest Transplant Network in 1999.
  The organization is governed by a board of directors, which is comprised of physicians, administrators, and other individuals with backgrounds as required by federal regulation. The Board is responsible for approving the goals, objectives and policies of the organization necessary to accomplish the following mission/vision statement:

Mission

Vision

  Midwest Transplant Network is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation, one of more than fifty federally certified Organ Procurement Organizations (OPO), designated by the Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA) for the purpose of providing organ procurement services to hospitals. MTN is designated as the exculsive OPO for its service area (see map) which encompasses the state of Kansas and over half of the counties in central and western Missouri. MTN is also a member of the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
and participates in the national Organ Procurement & Transplant Network (OPTN).