Donation and Transplantation
General
- United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS): www.unos.org
- The Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO): www.aopo.org
- Donate Life America (formerly the Coalition on Donation): www.donatelife.net
- The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR): www.ustransplant org
- The Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative: http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Topics/Improvement/
ImprovementMethods/ImprovementStories/
OrganDonationBreakthroughCollaborative.htm - The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN): www.optn.org
- The official U.S. government site for information on donation and transplantation: www.organdonor.gov/
- The Gift of a Lifetime: www.organtransplants.org
- The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB): www.aatb.org
- The Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA): www.restoresight.org/
- The National Marrow Donor Program: www.marrow.org
- The American Red Cross (blood and marrow donation): www.redcross.org
Public Education and Registries
- Donate Life Northwest: www.donatelifenw.org
- Oregon Donor Registry: www.donatelifenw.org/register
- Idaho Donor Registry: www.yesidaho.org
- Washington State and Montana Donor Registry: www.donatelifetoday.com
PNTB's Partners in Local Eye and Tissue Donation
- Community Tissue Services: www.communitytissue.org/branches/
portland.html - Lions Eye Bank of Oregon: http://eyebank.orlions.org
- Idaho Lions Eye Bank: www.saintalphonsus.org/svc_organ_ileb.html
- SightLife (founded by Northwest Lions Foundation, Seattle, Wash.): www.sightlife.org
Transplant Centers
in PNTB's Service Area
- Legacy Health System (kidney): www.legacyhealth.org/transplant
- Oregon Health & Science University (kidney, heart, liver, pancreas; support for lung and heart-lung): www.ohsu.edu/transplant
- Portland VA Medical Center (liver, kidney): http://www.visn20.med.va.gov/portland/
Transplant/ Liver/index.asp - Providence Health System (heart): www.providence.org/oregon/programs_and_
services/heart/heartTransplant.htm
In the United States
- Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN): http://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/members/
search.asp
Donor Families
- National Donor Memorial: www.donormemorial.org
- National Donor Family Council: www.kidney.org/transplantation/donorFamilies/
index.cfm - The MOD Squad (Mothers of Donors Program): http://samanacollege.com/walter/
waltermodsquad.html - GriefNet.org: www.griefnet.org
- Crisis, Grief, and Healing: www.webhealing.com
- Beyond Indigo — Death and Dying: Support for Grief and Loss: www.beyondindigo.com
- The Compassionate Friends: www.compassionatefriends.org
- Alive Alone: www.alivealone.org
- The Dougy Center for Grieving Children and Teens: www.grievingchild.org
- Rainbows Peer Support Group: www.rainbows.org
- Sibling Grief and Healing: www.webhealing.com/forums
- AARP: www.aarp.org/family/lifeafterloss
- Parents Without Partners: www.parentswithoutpartners.org
- ShareGrief.com: www.sharegrief.com