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Causes: Health, Organ & Tissue Banks
Mission: Nevada donor network (the "network") is a federally designated not-for-profit organ, tissue, and eye procurement organization. The network is responsible for the coordination, recovery, and distribution of donated human organs and tissues intended for transplantation, medical education and research. The network provides services to hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout nevada and participates in the national organ and tissue sharing system.
Programs: Organ recovery focuses on life saving solid organs such as the heart, liver, lungs, intestines, pancreas and kidneys. Organ recovery supports the solid organ transplant programs at university medical center and other transplant programs across the country.
tissue and eye recovery includes bones, tendons, skin, heart valves, veins and corneas. Tissues are recovered by the network staff and sent to various organizations for further processing and subsequent distribution. The network also operates a full service eye bank that provides ocular tissue for transplantation. Ocular tissue is utilized locally and shared with other eye banks throughout the united states and other countries through the international cornea project. This program includes the northern nevada office that also performs tissue and eye recovery.
the hla laboratory performs tissue typing on potential organ donors, recipients and living related matches.
donor network education provides awareness and information to the medical community and general public through professional education seminars, hospital inservices, ceu programs, public education, health fairs, bereavement programs, and school presentations. The northern nevada office is a satellite office in reno, nevada which provides tissue and ocular services to that region.