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American
Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is dedicated
to meeting the needs of its 65,000 members who care for acutely
and critically ill patients and their families. AACN provides
practice and educational resources as well as professional support
for the members and is guided by its mission statement: Building
on decades of clinical excellence, the American Association
of Critical-Care Nurses provides and inspires leadership to
establish work and care environments that are respectful, healing
and humane. AACN is dedicated to creating a healthcare system
driven by the needs of patients and families where critical
care nurses make their optimal contribution. |
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American
Association of Tissue Banks (AATB)
The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) is a scientific,
not-for-profit, peer group organization founded in 1976. Its
mission is to facilitate the provision of high quality transplantable
human tissue in quantities sufficient to meet national needs.
The Association publishes standards to help ensure that the
conduct of tissue banking meets acceptable norms of technical
and ethical performance, and provides technical information
that describes procedures to foster reasonable and responsible
approaches to recovery, processing, preservation, and distribution
of transplantable tissue. Specifics include: Screening for HIV
and hepatitis, donor selection criteria, required testing, record-keeping,
maintenance of asepsis, labeling, and storage. AATB also carries
out programs of inspection and accreditation of tissue banking
organizations and certification of tissue bank personnel, to
ensure that tissue banking activities are being performed in
a professional manner consistent with the standards of the Association.
In its efforts to help maintain tissue banking at the highest
level of quality, AATB maintains close liaison with officials
of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, engaging in an on-going
program of information exchange. To this end, FDA has provided
informal monitoring of various AATB programs. |
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American
Liver Foundation
The American Liver Foundation is a national, voluntary nonprofit
organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment, and cure
of hepatitis and other liver diseases through research, education
and advocacy. Although liver diseases are among the leading
seven major causes of death in the United States, there was
no national voluntary health agency devoted exclusively to combating
liver diseases until 1976, when the American Liver Foundation
was formed. Many serious liver diseases are potentially preventable;
education about them can give individuals an opportunity to
participate in their own preventive health care. An increase
in research can make it possible to develop improved treatments
and find cures. A major effort is necessary to control the increase
in liver diseases. |
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American
Operating Room Nurses (AORN)
AORN is the professional organization of perioperative registered
nurses that supports registered nurses in achieving optimal
outcomes for patients undergoing operative and other invasive
procedures. AORN is the global leader in promoting excellence
in perioperative nursing practice |
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American
Red Cross in Greater New York
ARC/GNY is a non-profit humanitarian organization staffed primarily
by dedicated volunteers. It is the largest Red Cross chapter
in the United States, serving the daily needs of nearly 9 million
people in New York City and Putnam, Orange, Rockland and Sullivan
Counties. |
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Association
of Hispanic Healthcare Executives (AHHE)
The Association of Hispanic Healthcare Executives (AHHE) was
founded in 1988 as a national voluntary organization seeking
to foster programs and policies to increase the presence of
Hispanics in health administration professions. The East Coast
Chapter of AHHE was founded in New York City in 1999 as a regional
affiliate of the national organization. |
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Association
of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO)
The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) is
a private, nonprofit organization recognized as a national representative
of organ procurement organizations (OPOs). AOPO is a professional
organization dedicated to the special concerns of OPOs. |
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Cammy
Lee Leukemia Foundation
The Cammy Lee Leukemia Foundation Inc. is a non-profit health
service organization dedicated to raising awareness of leukemia
and other fatal blood diseases to the Asian & Pacific Islander
community. The CLLF's goals are to increase the pool of API
marrow and stem cell volunteer donors and provide support to
families who are facing these diseases. CLLF is an official
recruitment group of the National Marrow Donor Program. |
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Center
for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drug
Administration
The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) currently
regulates (under 21 CFR Part 1270) human tissue intended for
transplantation that is recovered, processed, stored, or distributed
by methods that do not change tissue function or characteristics
and that is not currently regulated as a human drug, biological
product, or medical device. Examples of such tissues are bone,
skin, corneas, ligament and tendon. Part 1270 requires tissue
establishments to screen and test donors, to prepare and follow
written procedures for the prevention of the spread of communicable
disease, and to maintain records. FDA is in the process of revising
the regulation of human tissues, cells, and cellular and tissue-based
products. The proposed regulatory approach would address a broader
scope of products, include more comprehensive requirements to
prevent the transmission of communicable disease, and would
apply tiered requirements based on the characteristics of such
products. |
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The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized
as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety
of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information
to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong
partnerships. CDC serves as the national focus for developing
and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health,
and health promotion and education activities designed to improve
the health of the people of the United States. CDC, located
in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is an agency of the Department of
Health and Human Services. |
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Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
As of July 1, 2001, the Health Care Financing Administration
(HCFA) became the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS). CMS is a federal agency within the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services. CMS runs the Medicare and Medicaid
programs - two national health care programs that benefit about
75 million Americans. And with the Health Resources and Services
Administration, CMS runs the State Children's Health Insurance
Program (SCHIP), a program that is expected to cover many of
the approximately 10 million uninsured children in the United
States. CMS also regulates all laboratory testing (except research)
performed on humans in the United States. CMS, with the Departments
of Labor and Treasury, helps millions of Americans and small
companies get and keep health insurance coverage, and helps
eliminate discrimination based on health status for people buying
health insurance. |
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Life. Live it. Give it. (Discovery Health Channel)
Donation awareness from Discovery Health Media, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, and the Coalition on Donation:
http://health.discovery.com/convergence/giftoflife/map/map.html
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Donate
Life America (Previously the Coalition on Donation)
Donate Life America, previously known as the Coalition on Donation, is a
not-for-profit alliance of national organizations and local coalitions
across the United Sates, dedicated to educating the public about organ
and tissue donation. Donate Life America has produced national campaigns
that have resulted in advertising messages for television, radio and
billboards. Its most recent campaigns have been directed toward the
Hispanic/Latino and African-American communities. The local coalition is
the Greater New York Coalition on Donation.
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Emergency
Nurses Association (ENA)
ENA's mission is to provide visionary leadership for emergency
nursing and emergency care. members are staff nurses; Emergency
Department nurse managers; administrators; clinical nurse specialists;
pediatric, trauma, or flight nurses; prehospital coordinators;
nurse practitioners; educators; and student nurses. |
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Eye-Bank
for Sight Restoration, Inc.
The world's first eye bank, established in 1944, The Eye-Bank
for Sight Restoration recovers, processes and distributes donor
eye tissue for sight-saving cornea transplants, medical education
and research. Since it was founded, it has helped restore sight
to more than 46,000 men, women and children. The Eye-Bank serves
the Greater New York Metropolitan area including New York City,
Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Orange Counties.
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Donate Life Greater New York (formerly the Greater New York Coalition on Donation)
Donate Life Greater New York (DLGNY) is a group of nonprofit organizations dedicated to
educating the public about the need for organ, eye and tissue donation in the greater
New York metropolitan area. The national organization is known as Donate Life America
(formerly the Coalition on Donation). The regional coalition is headed by the New York
Organ Donor Network, The Eye-Bank for Sight
Restoration, Inc and the New
York Firefighters Skin Bank at New York Presbyterian Hospital,
and it is joined by other organizations: A Gift of Life, American
Liver Foundation , Kidney
& Urology Foundation of America, Inc. , Latino
Organization for Liver Awareness (LOLA) , New
York Center for Liver Transplantation, TRIO
Long Island , TRIO
Manhattan , Transplant
Support Organization (TSO) and Transplants
Save Lives (TSL). DLGNY works to create awareness of the ability of organ, eye and
tissue donation to restore recipients to meaningful and productive lives; dispel
myths about donation, encourage individuals to consider donation and provide guidance
on how to become donors. The major focus is to increase enrollments in the New York State
Organ and Tissue Donor Registry. Contacts: Julia Rivera, New York Organ Donor Network:
Phone 646-291-4456; jrivera@nyodn.org and Noël Mick, The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration:
Phone 212-742-9000; nmick@ebsr.org. |
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Greater
New York Hospital Association
Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) is a trade association
representing more than 200 not-for-profit hospitals and long-term
care institutions, both voluntary and public, in the New York
metropolitan area. |
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Halachic
Organ Donor Society
The Halachic Organ Donor Society (HOD Society)
disseminates information regarding Halachic issues and Rabbinic
opinions concerning organ donation. The HOD Society offers
card carrying membership in a society that allows people to
donate organs in accordance
with their particular Halachic belief. HOD Society's founder
and director is Robert Berman. Mr. Berman has been a
social activist for many Jewish causes, and was previously
a
freelance journalist and photojournalist, published in New
York Magazine, the Jerusalem
Post, Jewish Week, Moment Magazine, and Jerusalem Report.
HOD Society contact information: 111 Eighth Avenue , 11th
Floor, New York , NY 10011 ; phone: 212-213-5087;
fax: 212-213-9451; medical emergency: 646-645-4637. |
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Hispanic
Federation
The Hispanic Federation (HF) is a membership organization of
Latino health and human services agencies serving Hispanics
in the tri-state region. HF's mission is to build and strengthen
community-based organizations which provide Latinos with a host
of services, including immigration services, health care, economic
development, job training, AIDS prevention, youth services,
leadership development, and housing. They have partnered with
the New York Organ Donor Network to promote awareness throughout
their 76 member agencies. In April of 2002, HF Cortes participated
in "Done Vida," the launching of the new National
Coalition on Donation for the Spanish-speaking community. |
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Hospitals
The New York Organ Donor Network currently serves more than
100 hospitals in the Greater New York metropolitan area. Click
here for a complete list of hospitals. |
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Kidney
& Urology Foundation of America, Inc.
The Kidney & Urology Foundation of America is a national,
not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping people avoid
the debilitating effects of kidney and urologic diseases - disorders
affecting as many as 70 millions Americans today. The Foundation
is focused aggressively on kidney and urologic research, to
nurture the development of new therapies and to make research
and new therapies more accessible to people in need. Through
its funding of research, medical conferences and interdisciplinary
hospital initiatives, the Kidney & Urology Foundation will
provide the leadership necessary to promote a better understanding
of kidney and urologic diseases. |
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Latino
Organization for Liver Awareness (LOLA)
Founded in 1994, LOLA is the first national bilingual bicultural
organization dedicated to raising awareness on liver disease
through informational materials, prevention and education community
outreach programs, treatment and referral services, support
groups, quarterly newsletters, HCV Prison Educational Presentations
and HCV Public Education Campaigns to the Latino and American
communities and other underserved populations who suffer from
liver disease in the United States. LOLA also provides bilingual
information on liver transplantation and encourages organ and
tissue donation. |
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Lions
Eye Bank for Long Island
The Lions Eye Bank for Long Island, a not-for-profit eye bank,
was established at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset,
New York in 1986 with the help of our local Lions Clubs. This
locally-based Eye Bank has as its chief purpose to serve the
needs of Long Island and the surrounding communities by providing
superior quality ocular tissue for corneal and scleral transplantation
surgery. The Lions Eye bank also provides this tissue for the
use of education and research programs throughout the U.S. This
effort is supported enthusiastically by the many thousand members
of the Lions Clubs of Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens. The
Lions Eye Bank for Long Island is a three year fully accredited
member of the Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA). |
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Medical
Society of the State of New York (MSSNY)
The Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY) is an organization
of approximately 30,000 licensed physicians, medical residents,
and medical students in New York State. Members participate
in both the state society and in their local county medical
societies. MSSNY is a non-profit organization committed to representing
the medical profession as a whole and advocating health related
rights, responsibilities and issues. It strives to promote and
maintain high standards in medical education and in the practice
of medicine in an effort to ensure that quality medical care
is available to the public. |
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Michael
Carnevale Foundation, The
Michael, 27, gave the ultimate "Gift of Life" when he died on
October 31 1999 as a result of injuries sustained during an
automobile accident. The foundation, established by his loving
parents, Bob and Jean, honors Michael and promotes donation. |
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MOTTEP (National Minority Organ
and Tissue Transplant Education Program)
The mission of the National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education
Program (MOTTEP) is to decrease the number and rate of ethnic minority
Americans needing organ and tissue transplants. MOTTEP seeks to achieve
its mission by implementing a national information and education campaign
that emphasizes both prevention and intervention strategies that result
in healthier life styles and behavioral patterns; increased number of
minority donors and transplant recipients; increased number of family
discussions regarding organ and tissue transplants, and increased number
of minority donor pledges. |
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Nassau-Suffolk
Hospital Council, Inc
The mission of the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council (NSHC) is
to provide a forum to exchange ideas in the development and
implementation of regional, state and national policy. The NHSC
works to identify key policy issues confronting the health care
industry; to provide analysis and information on issues to the
collective membership and the public. They work to promote broader
public knowledge and understanding of hospital services and
their relationships to other health care providers. The NSHC
identifies and develops research and demonstration projects
that will lead to better health policy and more effective and
efficient approaches to the delivery of health care services.
For more information, phone 631-435-3000. |
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National
Association of Hispanic Nurses (NAHN)
The purpose of NAHN is to promote Hispanic nurses to improve
the health of our communities. NAHN strives to serve the nursing
and health care delivery needs of the Hispanic community and
the professional needs of Hispanic nurses. NAHN is designed
and committed to work toward improvement of the quality of health
and nursing care for Hispanic consumers and toward providing
equal access to educational, professional, and economic opportunities
for Hispanic nurses. |
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National
Association of Health Service Executives (NAHSE)
The National Association of Health Services Executives (NAHSE)
is a non-profit association promoting the advancement and development
of black health care leaders, and elevating the quality of health
care services rendered to minority and underserved communities.
NAHSE's purpose is to ensure greater participation of minority
groups in the health field. |
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National
Donor Family Council
The National Donor Family Council of the National Kidney Foundation
was founded in 1992 as the "Home for Donor Families."
Comprised of donor family members and professionals, the National
Donor Family Council supports the needs and expectations of
all organ and tissue donor families and assists the health care
professionals who work most closely with these families. The
Council works collaboratively with all organizations in the
transplant, bereavement, and professional communities. Through
dedicated service to the families of those who gave the gift
of life, the Council provides a strong, unified voice in meeting
their needs and providing a safe haven as they learn to live
without the ones they love. The National Donor Family Council
publishes a free quarterly newsletter for donor families, entitled
For Those Who Give and Grieve.
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National
Kidney Foundation
The National Kidney Foundation, Inc., a major voluntary health
organization, seeks to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases,
improve the health and well-being of individuals and families
affected by these diseases, and increase the availability of
all organs for transplantation. |
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New
York Alliance for Donation (NYAD)
The New York Alliance for Donation, Inc is a newly formed statewide
organization dedicated to increasing public awareness and education
about organ and tissue donation. The Alliance will also address
the need to improve education for professionals and the evaluation
of methods that are intended to impact donation. The Alliance
was established through the efforts of not for profit recovery
organizations represented on the New York State Task Force to
Increase Organ and Tissue Donation. The New York Organ Donor
Network, Upstate New York Transplant Services, Inc., Center
for Donation and Transplant, Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network,
Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, Sight Society of Northeastern
New York, Lion's Eye Bank for Long Island of North Shore University
Hospital, and Rochester Eye and Human Parts Bank are corporate
members. These corporate members have committed to establishing
a financially stable organization that will continue the work
initiated by the Task Force. The Alliance,
headquartered in Albany, will educate policy makers, collaborate
with many other statewide organizations, and coordinate activities
and events statewide that will increase awareness of the critical
importance of organ and tissue donation. The Alliance will
be working on projects related to increasing awareness of
the New York State Organ and Tissue New York State Organ and
Tissue Donor Registry, creating professional education opportunities,
and supporting the implementation of the New York State Gift
of Life Donor Medal. Funding through grants, corporate giving
and opportunities for organizations affiliated with donation
and transplantation to participate will also be pursued.
Phone: 518-533-7878. The mailing address is
99 Troy Road, Suite 200, East Greenbush, NY 12601 Web site:
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