Last modified: 25 June, 2001
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New England Organ Bank |
Information was provided to TransWeb by the New England Organ Bank 4/98.
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One Gateway Center, Newton, Massachusetts 02158 |
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(800) 446-NEOB (1-800-446-63262) (p) 24-hour assistance: |
| info@neob.com |
| http://www.neob.org/ |
| UNOS Region 1 |
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Contact person for public education: |
Sean Fitzpatrick |
| Geographical areas covered: | New Haven Connecticut Area, Maine, Eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont |
| Population served: | 11.1 million |
| Transplant centers in the service area: |
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, West Campus Boston, MA; Boston Medical Center, East Newton Campus, Boston MA; Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Children's Hospital, Boston MA; Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; Fletcher Allen Health Care, MCHV Campus, Burlington, VT; Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA; Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; New England Medical Center, Boston, MA; Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI; University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, MA; Veteran's Administration Medical Center, Boston, MA; Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven CT |
The organization
and its mission:
The New England Organ Bank is an independent, not-for-profit agency
whose mission is to recover, preserve, and distribute human organs and tissues
for transplantation. The Organ Bank has its headquarters in Newton, Mass., and
has regional offices throughout New England. As the federally-designated organ
procurement organization for all or part of the six New England states, it serves
177 acute care hospitals and 14 transplant centers.
Unique or creative
organ donation promotion strategies:
Public and community education efforts continued with a flurry of activity for
the first observance of National Donor Sabbath, the second Crosby Stills &
Nash tour, and the thirteenth annual celebration of National Organ and Tissue
Donor Awareness Week. Although these are natural opportunities to promote organ
and tissue donation, in fact, public education happens all year long, with presentations
to schools, church groups, civic organizations, and businesses. We also provide
information through motor vehicle offices, libraries, physicians' and lawyers'
offices, at sporting events, and even on toll roads.
We are aided in this enormous task by a corps of dedicated volunteer speakers drawn from the ranks of transplant recipients, donor families, transplant professionals, and other interested individuals. All have received speaker training and direction in specific projects and are a valuable resource to NEOB in its community education programs.
Our existing Telly-award-winning television commercial ran for two weeks in October. New 30-second television and radio commercials featuring a liver transplant recipient who was able to return to work as a preschool teacher and to have a baby of her own following her transplant aired for two weeks in April during National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week. As always, the volume of calls for information and donor cards increased significantly, and a generally heightened awareness of organ donation and transplantation led to increased requests for speakers.
State advisory boards were formed to advise the Board of Trustees of the Organ Bank on locally-important issues and on local opportunities and strategies for maximizing organ and tissue donation. Initial meetings were enthusiastically attended and generated much energy and many innovative ideas for increasing community awareness. We hope that in the coming year these ideas will be the framework for action plans, unique to each state, which will create an environment of heightened awareness and acceptance for organ and tissue donation.
The Organ Bank, transplant centers, and transplant recipients continued the tradition of honoring donor families throughout New England at special donor family recognition ceremonies. In addition, NEOB provides aftercare services to donor families, including provision of materials at appropriate intervals following the death of a family member, as well as facilitating correspondence, and in some cases, meetings between donor families and transplant recipients.
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Last modified:
25 June, 2001