For Shady Grove Fertility’s anonymous egg donors, the new portal offers easier, faster prequalification in a mobile-friendly secure environment. For women who need donated eggs, enhanced search features of prescreened, ready-to-donate donors and a new reservation system make finding a donor a simpler process.
Shady Grove Fertility, the largest fertility center in the nation, with 28 locations and 41 physicians throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Georgia, and Washington, D.C., announced today the launch of a new donor egg portal that simplifies and expedites the process of donating eggs for women ages 21 to 32, and selecting and reserving an egg donor for women who need donated eggs in order to conceive.
For egg donors, enhancements include a quick, online pre-application that sends immediate notification if they are prequalified to donate. In addition, SGF has streamlined and simplified the prescreening process thereby reducing the amount of time to donate—meaning donors are often matched quickly with recipients. This is especially important for women who donate more than once, which comprises 65 percent of donors at SGF. “Most women who donate do so for altruistic reasons. This helps fulfill that desire faster,” says Michele Purcell, MHA, RN, Director of SGF’s Donor Egg Program.
For women who need donor eggs to conceive, the new portal offers many cutting-edge features that make sorting through the finest details of SGF’s prescreened donors to match characteristics and find the right donor easier. Recipients can also search through personal and family medical history, genetic disease history, educational background, and personal interests. Essays are available to provide unique insight into the motivation and personality of each donor. Each donor provides childhood photos and many have consented to sharing their current adult photographs.
“It used to be you had to anxiously await a response once you’d found your perfect donor. Now recipients can scroll in real time 24/7 on any mobile device, choose a donor, and know that she’s confirmed,” adds Purcell.
“We are excited to launch this new platform and believe it’s the best in class for our egg donors and our recipients,” says Michael J. Levy, M.D., SGF Co-Founder. “People come to us from all over the United States, the UK, Canada, and 35 countries around the world. We believe they value our unique donor egg sharing program combined with a 100% treatment guarantee that they will take home a baby or receive their money back. These solutions help ease the financial burden associated with donor egg treatment,” adds Levy.
The launch of this new platform enables SGF to stay ahead of the increasing volume the practice has seen in its egg donor program. Last year alone, Shady Grove Fertility performed close to 1,000 donor egg treatment cycles, with 85 percent of the women who need an egg donor selecting a donor who was recruited and carefully screened by SGF’s clinical team.
“Before a donor is ever added to our database, she must undergo our stringent medical, genetic, and psychological screening. This new database will allow for a swifter screening process, which means more qualified donors becoming readily available to our recipients,” adds Dr. Levy.
For donor egg recipients who elect SGF’s signature Shared Donor Egg Program, which offers tremendous advantage by way of cost savings, access to a larger pool of donors and a significant reduction in wait time to select a donor, and a more efficient use of the eggs so the recipient doesn’t end up with many used embryos—not to mention similar success rates as those seen among recipients who do not share a donor—the SGF portal now provides 24/7 updates regarding how many other donor matches are needed for match completion.
To learn more about eligibility to become an anonymous egg donor or how SGF compensates donors for their time and effort, or to learn more about SGF’s Donor Egg Treatment Program, call and speak with a Patient Liaison or submit this brief online form.
About Shady Grove Fertility (SGF)
SGF is a leading fertility and IVF center of excellence with 50,000 babies born and counting—more than any other center in the United States. With 41 physicians and 28 locations throughout MD, PA, VA, GA, and D.C., we offer patients individualized care, innovative financial options, and pregnancy rates among the highest of all national centers. More physicians refer their patients to SGF than any other center. Call 1-888-761-1967 or visit ShadyGroveFertility.com.
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