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The New York Organ
Donor Network works closely with all nine transplant
centers and more than 100 hospitals
in the Greater New York metropolitan area. |
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The Donor Network serves
a culturally and ethnically diverse population of 13 million
people in New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx
and Staten Island); Long Island; Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland,
and Westchester Counties; and Pike County, PA. |
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All hospitals in the
United States must, by law, notify their local organ procurement
organization of all in-hospital deaths in a timely manner. |
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For organs and tissues,
the Donor Network sends our medically-trained staff to hospitals
to evaluate and maintain potential donors. |
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For tissue donation
on its own, we contact the next of kin of thousands of families
each year to seek donation. |
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Signing a donor card
or the New
York State Organ and Tissue Donor Registry isn't enough.
We always request permission for organ and tissue donation from
the patient's next
of kin. So it's so important for people to tell their families
about their wish to donate organs and tissues. |
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The New York Organ
Donor Network is a member of the United
Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), which oversees the national
organ transplant waiting list as well as all transplant centers
and the organ procurement organizations. |
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When organs are donated
in the New York metropolitan area, the Donor Network and UNOS
match them with one of the approximately 6,800 local candidates
waiting, based on donor-recipient blood type, medical urgency,
body weight and size, and proximity of recipient to donor. If
no appropriate recipient is found locally, the organs are then
offered to recipients in different regions of the United States. |
