Health Services

Organ Recovery - The Process

Article Sections
Organ Recovery Home	The Transfer of Organs
Organ Matching	Admission to Hospital
Organ Allocation

An organ recovery coordinator is available on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to receive incoming referrals from organ procurement agencies from across the United States and Canada. The United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) coordinates these referrals as the federally designated Organ Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN). UNOS contracts with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to allocate organs and oversee the U.S. Scientific Registry on Organ Transplantation. The U.S. Scientific Registry is the most complete medical database in the world, tracking all solid organ transplants since October 1, 1987.