Advisory Council Agencies
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The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is: "Building healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke."
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The American Liver Foundation (ALF) is the nation's leading nonprofit organization promoting liver health and disease prevention. ALF provides research, education and advocacy for those affected by liver-related diseases, including hepatitis.
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Connecticut Eye Bank and Visual Research Foundation is an affiliate of Tissue Banks International (TBI) is a non-profit network of eye and tissue banks. We provide corneas and other eye tissue for sight restoring transplant surgery. TBI began with one eye bank, the Medical Eye Bank of Maryland, in 1962.
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The ESRD Network of New England is a non-profit corporation, which serves as the Medicare contractor for the New England States of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. The mission of the Network is to facilitate the improvement of health care and quality of life for individuals who have chronic renal insufficiency and those treated with dialysis or transplantation.
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The goal at the Hartford Hospital Transplant Program is to provide the highest quality patient-centered care in a community setting with a multidisciplinary approach to patient care utilizing the enormous talents and resources of a broad team. The Transplant Program is certified by the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
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The Hospital of Central Connecticut is a 414-bed, 32-bassinet, acute-care hospital with campuses in New Britain and Southington. A teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, we provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services in general medicine and surgery and a wide variety of specialties.
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The National Kidney Foundation, serving Connecticut, a major voluntary health organization, seeks to prevent kidney and urinary tract diseases, improve the health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and increase the availability of all organs for transplantation. The NKF of Connecticut funds medical research in fields of nephrology (kidney disease), transplantation and urology and provides education and support services to patients and transplant recipients, their families and to renal (kidney) health professionals in Connecticut.
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LifeChoice Donor Services, Inc. is the federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organization (OPO) for six counties in Connecticut and three counties in Western Massachusetts with a combined population of 2.1 million people. The OPO serves twenty-three acute care hospitals for organ and tissue donation and two organ transplant hospitals, Hartford Hospital in Hartford, CT and Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA. LifeChoice Donor Services is a member in good standing of the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS) and the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO).
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The New England Organ Bank (NEOB) is the oldest independent organ procurement organization (OPO) in the country. It is the federally-designated OPO for all or part of the six New England states. In addition to this regional coverage, NEOB provides services to Bermuda. NEOB staff work with the approximately 160 acute care hospitals to maximize donation. NEOB collaborates with hospital staff to clarify organ and tissue donation policies and to ensure that potential donors are consistently recognized and referred.
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Yale-New Haven Transplant Center(YNHTC) has earned a reputation of technical excellence, leading-edge research and a commitment to excellent patient care that results in high success rates. A world pioneer in live-donor transplants, YNHTC offers a unique service for patients with both kidney and liver disease that requires transplantation: patients with one or more family members willing to donate a kidney or a portion of a liver may have the procedures performed when the need presents itself, without waiting for a cadaveric organ. Yale-New Haven doctors are known for advances in transfusion-free medicine and surgery.
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