Resources
Useful Links
Please Note: The New York Organ Donor Network provides the following external website links as a resource to our visitors. However, while the Donor Network works as partners with some of these organizations and website owners, we do not in any way vouch for these programs nor for their website content; nor does the Donor Network accept any responsibility for those users who may partake in their programs or resources. By visiting these websites, you understand that you are leaving the New York Organ Donor Network website.
Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO)
Donate Life America (Previously the Coalition on Donation)
Donate Life Greater New York
Greater New York Hospital Association
Halachic Organ Donor Society (HODS)
Hospitals
Kellner Family Pediatric Liver Disease Foundation, The
LINKS Incorporated, The
Marcie Mazzola Foundation
MOTTEP (National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program
New York Alliance for Donation (NYAD)
New York State Department of Health
Organ Procurement Organizations in New York State
Transplant Recipient Support Groups
Tissue and Eye Banks
Transplant Centers
United Hospital Fund
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
United States Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) UNOS
Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO)
AOPO represents and serves organ procurement organizations through advocacy, support, and development of activities that will maximize the availability of organs and tissues and enhance the quality, effectiveness, and integrity of the donation process. www.aopo.org
Donate Life America was founded by the transplant community in 1992 to educate the public about organ, eye and tissue donation and avoid duplication of effort. The local coalition is Donate Life Greater New York. This site lists organ donor registry information for each state in the United States that operates one. www.donatelife.net
Donate Life Greater New York is a group of nonprofit organizations dedicated to educating the public about the need for organ, eye and tissue donation in the greater New York metropolitan area. The national organization is known as Donate Life America. The regional coalition is headed by the New York Organ Donor Network and The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, Inc, and it is joined by other organizations:
- American Kidney Fund
- American Liver Foundation
- Kidney & Urology Foundation of America, Inc.
- National Kidney Foundation
- New York Blood Center
- New York Firefighters Skin Bank at New York Presbyterian Hospital
- TRIO Long Island
- TRIO Manhattan
- Transplant Speakers International
- Transplants Save Lives (TSL)
- Transplant Support Organization (TSO)
Donate Life Greater New York works to create awareness of the ability of organ, eye and tissue donation to restore recipients to meaningful and productive lives; dispel myths about donation, encourage individuals to consider donation and provide guidance on how to become donors. The major focus is to increase enrollments in the New York State Donate Life Registry.
Contacts: Julia Rivera, New York Organ Donor Network: Phone 646-291-4456; jrivera@nyodn.org;
Noël Mick, The Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration: Phone 212-742-9000; mick@ebsr.org
Greater New York Hospital Association
Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), founded in 1904, is trade association comprising nearly 300 hospitals and continuing care facilities, both voluntary and public, in the metropolitan New York area and throughout the State, as well as New Jersey, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. www.gnyha.org
Halachic Organ Donor Society (HODS)
The HODS mission is to save lives by increasing organ donations from Jews to the general population (Jews and non-Jews alike). In addition to promoting donor registration in each state, including New York, HODS offer a unique organ donor card that enables Jews to donate organs according to their halachic belief. www.hods.org
Hospitals
The New York Organ Donor Network currently serves more than 90 hospitals in the Greater New York metropolitan area. Also see Transplant Centers – there are 10 transplant centers in the Donor Network’s service area.
Bellevue Hospital Center www.nyc.gov/hhc
Beth Israel Medical Center - Kings Highway Division www.bethisraelny.org
Beth Israel Medical Center - Petrie Division www.bethisraelny.org
Bon Secours Community Hospital www.bonsecourscommunityhosp.org
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center www.bronx-leb.org
Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center www.brookdale.edu
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center www.brookhavenhospital.org
Brooklyn Hospital Center www.tbh.org
Coney Island Hospital www.nyc.gov/hhc
Eastern Long Island Hospital www.elih.org
Elmhurst Hospital Center www.nyc.gov/hhc
Flushing Hospital Medical Center www.flushinghospital.org
Forest Hills Hospital www.northshorelij.com/body.cfm?ID=61
Franklin Hospital Medical Center www.northshorelij.com/body.cfm?ID=58
Glen Cove Hospital www.northshorelij.com/body.cfm?ID=53
Good Samaritan Hospital www.goodsamhosp.org/
Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center www.good-samaritan-hospital.org/
Harlem Hospital Center www.nyc.gov/hhc
Hudson Valley Hospital Center www.hvhc.org
Huntington Hospital www.hunthosp.org
Interfaith Medical Center www.interfaithmedical.com
Jacobi Medical Center www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/jacobi/
Jamaica Medical Center www.jamaicahospital.org
John T. Mather Memorial Hospital www.matherhospital.com/pages/index.asp
Kings County Hospital Center www.nyc.gov/hhc
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center www.kingsbrook.org
Lawrence Hospital Center www.lawrencehealth.org
Lenox Hill Hospital www.lenoxhillhospital.org
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center www.nyc.gov/hhc
Long Beach Medical Center www.lbmc.org
Long Island College Hospital www.wehealny.org/patients/lich_description.html
Long Island Jewish Medical Center www.northshorelij.com/body.cfm?ID=60
Lutheran Medical Center www.lmcmc.com
Maimonides Medical Center www.maimonidesmed.org
Mercy Medical Center www.mercymedicalcenter.chsli.org
Metropolitan Hospital Center www.nyc.gov/hhc
Montefiore Medical Center www.montefiore.org
Montefiore-North Division (formerly Our Lady of Mercy) www.montefiore.org/northdivision/
Mount Sinai Hospital of Queens www.mshq.org
Mount Sinai Medical Center www.mountsinai.org
Mount Vernon Hospital www.ssmc.org/homepagemv.cfm?id=45
Nassau University Medical Center www.numc.edu
New Island Hospital www.newislandhospital.org
New York Community Hospital www.nych.com
New York Downtown Hospital www.downtownhospital.org
New York Hospital Queens www.nyhq.org
New York Methodist Hospital www.nym.org
New York Westchester Square Medical Center www.nywsmc.org/
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital - Allen Pavilion www.nyp.org/allenpavilion/
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital - Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center www.nyp.org
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital - New York Weill Cornell Medical Center www.nyp.org
North Central Bronx Hospital www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/html/facilities/northcentralbronx.shtml
North Shore University Hospital www.northshorelij.com
Northern Westchester Hospital www.nwhc.net
Nyack Hospital www.nyackhospital.org
NYU Langone Medical Center www.med.nyu.edu/index.html
Orange Regional Medical Center - Arden Hill Campus www.ormc.org/
Orange Regional Medical Center - Horton Campus www.ormc.org/
Peconic Bay Medical Center www.peconicbaymedicalcenter.org/
Peninsula Hospital Center www.peninsulahospital.org
Phelps Memorial Hospital Center www.phelpshospital.org
Plainview Hospital www.northshorelij.com
Putnam Hospital Center www.putnamhospital.org
Queens Hospital Center www.nyc.gov/hhc
Richmond University Medical Center www.rumcsi.org/rumcsiportal/
St. Anthony Community Hospital www.stanthonycommunityhosp.org
St. Barnabas Hospital www.stbarnabashospital.org
St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center stcatherines.chsli.org
St. Charles Hospital & Rehabilitation Center www.stcharles.org
St. Francis Hospital – Poughkeepsie www.sfhhc.org
St. Francis Hospital – Roslyn www.stfrancisheartcenter.com/index.html
St. John's Episcopal Hospital, South Shore www.ehs.org
St. John's Riverside Hospital www.riversidehealth.org
St. Joseph's Medical Center www.sjmcmd.org
St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital - Cornwall Division www.stlukescornwallhospital.org
St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital - Newburgh Division www.stlukescornwallhospital.org
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center - Roosevelt Division www.wehealny.org
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center - St. Luke's Division www.wehealny.org/
Sound Shore Medical Center of Westchester www.ssmc.org
South Nassau Communities Hospital www.southnassau.org
Southampton Hospital www.southamptonhospital.org
Southside Hospital www.northshorelij.com/NSLIJ/Southside+Hospital
Staten Island University Hospital - North www.siuh.edu
Staten Island University Hospital - South www.siuh.edu
Stony Brook University Medical Center www.stonybrookmedicalcenter.org/
Syosset Hospital www.northshorelij.com
University Hospital of Brooklyn - SUNY Downstate Medical Center www.downstate.edu/uhb/
VA Medical Center – Northport www1.va.gov/directory/guide/facility.asp?id=101
Vassar Brothers Medical Center www.health-quest.org/home_vb.cfm?id=11
Weiler Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine:
Westchester Medical Center www.wcmc.com
White Plains Hospital Center www.wphospital.org
Winthrop University Hospital www.winthrop.org
Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center www.nyc.gov/hhc
Wyckoff Heights Medical Center www.wyckoffhospital.org
Kellner Family Pediatric Liver Disease Foundation, The
The foundation’s mission is to reduce the incidence of pediatric liver diseases and to improve the treatment and outcome of pediatric liver disease trough research, awareness, education and support.
Founded in 1946, The Links Inc. is one of the oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of women who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African- Americans and other persons of African Ancestry.
The mission of the foundation is to help better the lives of abused and at risk children and to build community awareness regarding the need of children.
www.marciemazzolafoundation.org
MOTTEP (National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program)
The mission of the National Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) is to decrease the number and rate of ethnic minority Americans needing organ and tissue transplants. www.mottep.org
New York Alliance for Donation (NYAD)
The New York Alliance for Donation is a non-profit organization comprised of organ and tissue recovery organizations throughout New York State, health professionals and individuals whose lives have been affected by donation. Its primary goal is to increase donation through education and awareness.
New York State Department of Health
The NYS Health department provides brochures about organ and tissue donation as well as instruction on how to join the registry.
www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/donor/index.htm
Organ Procurement Organizations in New York State
In addition to the New York Organ Donor Network, which serves the greater New York metropolitan area, three other nonprofit, federally designated organ procurement organizations (OPO) serve New York State. They are:
Center for Donation and Transplant (Albany) www.cdtny.org
Upstate New York Transplant Services (Buffalo) www.unyts.org
Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network (Rochester; Syracuse regional office) www.donorrecovery.org
Transplant Recipient Support Groups
Donate Life Group of Orange County
For transplant recipients, living donors, donor family members, and health care professionals.
TRIO (Transplant Recipients International Organization) of Manhattan
TRIO (Transplant Recipients International Organization) of Long Island
Transplant Support Organization (TSO)
TSO serves the New York counties of Westchester, Bronx, Putnam, Dutchess and Staten Island in addition to Southern Connecticut.
Transplants Save Lives (TSL)
TSL is a not-for-profit organization primarily serving residents of Rockland and Orange Counties in New York.
Community Tissue Services (CTS) www.communitytissue.org
CryoLife. Inc. www.cryolife.com
Sight Society of Northeastern New York (Lions Eye Bank at Albany) www.lionseyebankalbany.com
LifeNet Health www.lifenet.org
Lions Eye Bank for Long Island www.lebli.org
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation (MTF) www.mtf.org
The Eye-Bank For Sight Restoration www.eyedonation.org
New York Firefighters Skin Bank www.nyffburncenter.com
Ten transplant centers serve the greater New York metropolitan area:
Montefiore Medical Center [Montefiore-Einstein Transplant Center]
- Heart, Liver, Kidney, and Pancreas Transplants
- Website: http://www.montefiore.org/transplant/
Mount Sinai Medical Center [Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute]
- Heart, Liver, Kidney, Pancreas, and Intestinal Transplants
- Website: http://www.mountsinai.org/patient-care/service-areas/organ-transplants
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
- Heart, Kidney, Liver, Lung, Pancreas, and Intestinal Transplants
- Website: http://columbiasurgery.org/transplant/
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Kidney, Liver and Pancreas Transplants
- Website: http://cornellsurgery.org/transplant
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System/Manhasset
- Kidney Transplants
- Website: http://www.northshorelij.com/NSLIJ/transplant
NYU Langone Medical Center [Mary Lea Johnson Richards Organ Transplantation Center]
- Liver and Kidney Transplants
- Website: http://surgery.med.nyu.edu/transplant/
St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center
- Kidney Transplants
- Website: http://www.slrsurgery.org/divisions/transplant.html
Stony Brook University Medical Center
- Kidney Transplants
- Website: http://www.stonybrookmedicalcenter.org/transplant
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
- Kidney Transplants
- Website: http://www.downstate.edu/transplant/about.html
Westchester Medical Center
- Kidney, Liver, and Heart Transplants
- Website: http://www.worldclassmedicine.com/home_specialty.cfm?id=59
The United Hospital Fund is a nonprofit health services research and philanthropic organization whose mission is to shape positive change in health care for the people of New York.
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
Located in Richmond Virginia, UNOS is a non-profit, scientific and educational organization that administers the nation’s only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, established by the U.S. Congress in 1984. UNOS also operates an informational Web site for patients who wish to learn more about organ donation and the transplantation process: www.transplantliving.org. It includes updated daily news about patient transplant-specific news reports, reports on FDA approval activity, and clinical issues.
United States Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS)
The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. This site is devoted to providing information and resources on organ donation and transplantation issues and to promote organ and tissue donation awareness.
UNOS
See United Network for Organ Sharing
