UNOS & NMDP Links
United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) coordinates the nation's organ transplant system, providing vital services to meet the needs of men, women and children awaiting life-saving organ transplants. Based in Richmond, Virginia, UNOS is a private, nonprofit membership organization. UNOS members encompass every transplant hospital, tissue matching laboratory and organ procurement organization in the United States, as well as voluntary health and professional societies, ethicists, transplant patients and organ donor advocates.
For more information about UNOS, click on www.unos.org.
National Marrow Donor Program
The National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating an opportunity for all patients to receive the bone marrow or umbilical cord blood transplant they need, when they need it. Every year, thousands of men, women and children get life-threatening diseases like leukemia and lymphoma. Many of them will die unless they get a bone marrow or cord blood transplant from a genetically matched donor. Some people find a match in their family, but 70% do not. These patients depend on the NMDP to help them find an unrelated donor or cord blood unit.
For more information about NMDP, click on www.marrow.org.
Giving Hope:
“COTA gave us hope by making it easier for us to deal with the entire transplant process. We were so worried about Emilee’s health that the last thing we wanted to worry about was money. It was simply amazing that once COTA came to our hometown and trained the team of volunteers, the fundraising goal was quickly reached. That gave us hope that Emilee would be able to receive her new lungs, and we would be able to survive it all financially.”
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