Learn More About Organ Donation
Nearly 4,300 men, women and children in our
area are waiting for organ transplants. The
Penn Transplant Institute is dedicated to increasing
awareness of the need for organ and tissue donation.
To learn more about donating organs, try our Organ
Donor Quiz, and visit the Gift
of Life Donor Program web site. You can
also sign up online to become
an organ donor.
Since its founding in 1974, Gift of Life Donor
Program has served as the link between donors
and patients awaiting life-saving transplants,
coordinating over 16,500 vital organ transplants
and tens of thousands of tissue transplants.
Gift
of Life Donor Program, one of the oldest of
the 59 donor programs in the United States,
is the primary source of information regarding
all aspects of organ and tissue donation and
transplantation in the eastern half of Pennsylvania,
southern New Jersey and Delaware.
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