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Causes: Health, Organ & Tissue Banks
Mission: To perform or coordinate the performance of retrieving, preserving, and transporting organs and tissues and placing organs according to nationally established criteria. To conduct professional and public education.
Programs: Procurement of organs and tissues for transplant and research. The organization recovered 110 organs from 38 donors resulting in 88 life saving transplants; recovered tissues from 187 donors; 36,065 participants in health fairs presented to 48 different community groups; and distributed 2,704 packets of information.