California Transplant Donor Network

The organization and its mission: The Transplant Network provides the opportunity to improve and extend lives through organ and tissue donation for transplantation.

We concentrate our efforts on the recovery and placement of cadaveric vital organs such as lungs, heart, liver, kidney, heart-lung and pancreas. The Transplant Network refers potential cornea and tissue donors to eye and tissue banks in its region. The Transplant Network also offers on-going support and resources for donor families.

Unique or creative organ donation promotion strategies: The California Transplant Donor Network (the Transplant Network) helps patients in Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada receive organ and tissue transplants. The Transplant Network recovers organs from cadaveric donors and matches them with the more than 6,000 people who are currently waiting for transplants in this region. Cadaveric donors are people who have died and are able to donate organs and/or tissues.

The Transplant Network works with more than 150 hospitals in Northern and Central California and Northern Nevada. The Transplant Network helps the hospitals offer the option of organ and tissue donation to families whose loved ones have died. We also work closely with three Northern California transplant programs, which place patients on the national waiting list for transplants and perform transplant surgeries.

Besides coordinating organ and tissue recovery and distribution, the Transplant Network educates health-care professionals and the general public about organ and tissue donation. The Transplant Network is staffed by a variety of health-care professionals who are specially trained to work with families, hospitals, and the public in the promotion of organ and tissue donation.

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Last modified: 10 October, 2001