What Regionalt Donationscentrum does

Regionalt Donationscentrum (RDc) is a publicly funded healthcare coordination center established in autumn 2018 as the first regional donation center in Sweden. Operating under Region Stockholm & Gotland, it coordinates organ and tissue donation across all hospitals in the region, including Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Danderyds Sjukhus, Södersjukhuset, S:t Görans sjukhus, Södertälje sjukhus, Norrtälje sjukhus, and Visby Lasarett. RDc provides 24/7 on-call services through transplantation coordinators and donation-specialized nurses (DOSS), supporting donor identification, medical suitability assessment, family communication, and logistics for both organ and tissue donation.

The center's core technical competency lies in the operationalization of advanced donation protocols, including Donation after Brain Death (DBD), Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD), Intensive Care to facilitate Organ Donation (ICOD), and Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) for liver transplantation. RDc developed and disseminated standardized national donation folders for DBD and DCD through the OFO Mellansverige collaboration forum, and trains healthcare staff across intensive care, anesthesia, neurology, and surgery specialties. RDc also coordinates tissue donation pathways with eye banks (S:t Eriks Ögonsjukhus), skin banks (Hudbanken Uppsala, Tissue Bank Lund), and the Forensic Medicine Unit in Stockholm.

RDc operates as a government entity with no commercial revenue. It is funded through the regional healthcare budget of Region Stockholm & Gotland and reports directly to the Health and Medical Services Administration. The organization has approximately 10 specialized employees — physicians, nurses, coordinators, and an administrator — and expanded its scope in August 2025 to staff a nationwide donation hotline. There are no funding rounds, M&A activity, private investors, or equity instruments; the structure is a public cost-center delivering mandated coordination services to the regional healthcare system.

Name

Regionalt Donationscentrum

Legal name

Regionalt Donationscentrum

Website

https://regionaltdonationscentrum.se

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Regionalt Donationscentrum is a publicly funded healthcare coordination center under Region Stockholm & Gotland that provides 24/7 organ and tissue donation coordination, clinical training, and protocol implementation across all hospitals in the Stockholm-Gotland region.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Coordination Services

NAICS

Blood and Organ Banks (621991)

SIC

Services-Health Services (8000), Services-Hospitals (8060)

akta.pro primary industry

Blood, Organ & Tissue Donation Organizations (BPAGACAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Transplant Specialty Hospitals (HLAFAHAE), Community & Regional General Hospitals (HLAFAAAB)

Keywords

• Organ donation coordination
• Tissue donation services
• Healthcare staff training
• Transplant coordination
• Deceased donor programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Stockholm

HQ country

Sweden

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Public Healthcare Funding: RDc is a publicly funded healthcare coordination center under Region Stockholm and Gotland, established in autumn 2018. The organization operates as part of the regional healthcare system with direct reporting to the Health and Medical Services Administration.

Go-to-market motion1 record

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Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Regionalt Donationscentrum coordinates organ and tissue donation from deceased donors across all hospitals in Region Stockholm and Gotland. The center operates 24/7 on-call transplantation coordinators and donation-specialized nurses (DOSS) who directly support hospital ICU and surgical staff during donation processes, and provides education, training, and quality follow-up to healthcare professionals in DBD, DCD, ICOD, and NRP procedures.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Organ Donation Coordination Services (DBD and DCD) 24/7 on-call coordination of deceased organ donation processes including Donation after Brain Death (DBD) and Donation after Circulatory Death (DCD), providing expert transplantation coordinators who assist hospitals with donor identification, medical suitability, family communication, and logistics through transplantation.
• Tissue Donation Coordination Services Coordination of tissue donation including cornea, skin, and heart valves, with tissue coordinators performing medical suitability assessment (medical record review) and donation attitude assessment (donation registry searches and next-of-kin conversations) in partnership with eye banks, skin banks, and pathology providers.
• ICOD - Organ Preserving Treatment Coordination Coordination of ICOD procedures enabling identification of potential organ donors outside intensive care and initiation of organ-preserving treatment after brain death decision, made possible by the July 2022 change in Swedish law.
• NRP - Normothermic Regional Perfusion for Liver Transplantation Coordination of Normothermic Regional Perfusion (NRP) technique for liver transplantation from DCD donors, involving perfusion of organs with warm oxygenated blood for approximately two hours after death to reverse ischemic damage and improve organ quality.
• Nationella Donationslinjen (National Donation Hotline 24/7) 24/7 national donation hotline providing physician support for medical and legal questions during organ donation processes, available to healthcare staff anywhere in Sweden via the number 010-441 44 44.
• Healthcare Staff Education and Training Programs Education and training programs for healthcare professionals including SK-courses (specialist training courses) in organ and tissue donation within intensive care, two-day training sessions, regional meetings, and specialized education for neurologists, neurosurgeons, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, intensivists, and acute care physicians.

Quantifiable outcome

• 147 DCD donors in Sweden since 2018 pilot
• +3 more outcomes

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Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core, secondary and minor.

• Rättsmedicinska enheten i Stockholm (Forensic Medicine Unit Stockholm)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2024Since spring 2024, RDc has collaborated with the Forensic Medicine Unit in Stockholm. RDc's tissue coordinators assist with medical suitability assessment (medical record review) and donation attitude assessment (searching donation registry and conversations with next of kin). This collaboration generated 19 tissue donors in 2024. Approximately 25% of all tissue donations in Sweden come from the six forensic medicine units in the country.
• S:t Eriks Ögonsjukhus (Hornhinnebank)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRDc has an established collaboration with the eye bank at S:t Eriks Ögonsjukhus for cornea donation. In 2024, RDc set a record with 127 cornea donors leading to 158 transplantations.
• Hudbanken i Uppsala (Skin Bank Uppsala)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRDc initiated collaboration with the Skin Bank in Uppsala in November 2021. Donated skin tissue can be used as life-saving dressing for patients with extensive burns. Stockholm region patients have been transplanted with skin tissue in Uppsala.
• Enheten för Patologi och cancerdiagnostik/Unilabs S:t Görans sjukhussecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration for pathology services and tissue donation at S:t Görans Hospital in Stockholm.
• Rättsmedicinalverket (National Board of Forensic Medicine)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSince 2011, Rättsmedicinalverket has an agreement with SKR (Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions) regarding tissue donation. Tissue can be retrieved during forensic medicine autopsies. Approximately 25% of all tissue donations in Sweden come from the six forensic medicine units.
• Vävnadsbanken i Lund (Tissue Bank Lund)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNew partnerships under establishment with tissue bank in Lund for expanded tissue donation services.
• Transplantationsenheten Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset HuddingecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration for transplantation activities, particularly for NRP (Normothermic Regional Perfusion) technique enabling liver transplantation from DCD donors.
• ECMO-centrum Nya KarolinskacoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerECMO center collaboration for DCD donation processes with NRP technique. NRP involves perfusion of organs with warm oxygenated blood for approximately 2 hours after death.
• Hälso- och sjukvårdsförvaltningen (Health and Medical Services Administration)coreOthersRDc reports directly to the Health and Medical Services Administration, which is the commissioning organization for the donation coordination activities.
• OFO Mellansverige (Collaboration Forum for organ donation in Central Sweden)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRegional collaboration forum coordinating donation activities across central Sweden, including national donation folders and standardized processes for DBD and DCD.
• Nationellt Donationscentrum/Socialstyrelsen (National Donation Center)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational coordination body under the National Board of Health and Welfare for organ and tissue donation, transplantation, cells and blood.
• Nationellt Donationscentrum, SocialstyrelsencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organizer of annual ceremonies honoring organ and tissue donors, working together with regional donation centers and Stockholm Cathedral Parish.
• Vävnadsrådet (Tissue Council)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational council for organs, tissues, cells and blood, providing guidelines and resources for tissue donation including DCD protocols.
• ScandiatransplantcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNordic transplant coordination organization administering organ transplant activities across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Estonia, including the STEP kidney exchange program.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT): Spain's national transplant organization, widely regarded as the global leader in donation rates; provides a benchmark and best-practice model for regional donation centers such as RDc.
• Agence de la biomédecine: French national agency overseeing organ, tissue, and cell donation, as well as assisted reproduction and genetics; a broader public mandate than RDc but with overlapping donation coordination responsibilities.
• NHS Blood and Transplant: UK-wide public entity responsible for blood, organ, and tissue donation coordination; functionally analogous to RDc at a national scale with a much broader remit (blood, stem cells, tissues, organs).

Regional players

• Fondation Centaure: French regional donation-support foundation focused on brain-dead donation research and hospital training; comparable regional mandate to RDc in supporting donation processes and clinician education.
• Gift of Life Donor Program: US organ procurement organization serving the greater Philadelphia region; the largest US OPO by volume and a direct functional equivalent to RDc at the regional hospital-coordination level, though operating under the US OPO model.

Others

• Eurotransplant: International organ allocation organization serving eight European countries; complementary to RDc's regional coordination by handling cross-border allocation in the Eurotransplant region.

Direct peers

• Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation (DSO): German coordination center for organ donation supporting hospitals in identifying donors and managing the donation process; comparable role to RDc within the German hospital system.
• Nederlandse Transplantatie Stichting: Dutch national organ and tissue donation coordination foundation; structurally similar public-interest organization that coordinates donation processes and donor registration in the Netherlands.
• Scandiatransplant: Nordic organ transplant coordination organization covering Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Estonia; a listed core partner of RDc that runs the STEP kidney exchange program and coordinates cross-border transplants.
• Nationellt Donationscentrum (Socialstyrelsen): Sweden's national donation coordination body under the National Board of Health and Welfare; sets national donation policy and works directly with RDc, including co-organizing the annual donor memorial ceremony. Operates at a national policy level while RDc executes at the regional level.

Market position

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Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/regionalt-donationscentrum

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Profiles8 records

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M&A

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