Our Mission
To save and enhance lives through organ donation.
Services
PNTB provides a full complement of organ recovery services:
- Clinical procurement
- Respond to potential donor referrals
- Lead medical management of the donor
- Place organs for transplant (using the national waiting list)
- Coordinate the incoming surgical team's arrival
- Assist in the operating room
- Hospital services
- Work with hospitals to ensure collaboration on organ and tissue donation
- Provide education to hospitals as needed
- Family services
- Provide follow-up and support to donor families
- Facilitate donor family and recipient communication
- Other services
- Assist with organ and tissue donation policy development
- Provide statistics specific to a given hospital's referral and donor activity
- Provide continuing education for nurses and physicians
- Conduct medical record reviews to ascertain a hospital's donor potential (PNTB's goals include increasing the donation conversion rate to 75 percent and obtaining 100 percent referral of imminent deaths.)