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United Network for Organ Sharing - UNOS

Organization URL(s)

editor@unos.org
www.unos.org

Other Contact Information

Post Office Box 2484

Richmond, VA 23218

888-894-6361 (Voice - Toll-free, Patient & Public Information)
804-782-4800 (Voice)
804-782-4876 (Voice, Data Requests Only)
804-782-4817 (FAX)

Description

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 lifesaving organ transplants. Based in Richmond, Va., 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.

Online Resources

Organ Donation and Transplantion: Support Groups
http://www.transplantliving.org/Community/supportGroupListing.aspx
Transplant Living: Organ Donation and Transplantation Information for Patients
http://www.transplantliving.org/

Print Resources

UNOS provides brochures on organ donation, donor cards, brochures developed for potential transplant recipients, lists of transplant centers, information kits with statistics, and fact sheets.