More than 4,200 people in New Jersey and close to 100,000 nationwide are on the waiting list for transplants. Of those, 70,000 are waiting for kidneys.
Separate and specific equitable allocation of each organ has been determined by experts and approved by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Social or financial data are not part of the computer database and are not factors in the determination of who receives an organ.
In the absence of a donor designation or if an individual is under age 18, the family is responsible for making all decisions regarding donation.
In 2006, 533 organ transplants were performed in New Jersey at the state's six transplant centers. These include 385 kidneys, 78 livers, 46 hearts, four pancreases and 20 kidney-pancreas transplantations.
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital offers:
Kidney transplants for both adults and children.
A paired kidney-exchange program, which is a national program that matches a patient in need of a transplant who has a willing but incompatible donor with another patient/donor pair in the same situation.
In addition to Robert Wood Johnson, transplant centers in New Jersey are:
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
Hackensack University Medical Center
University Hospital in Newark
Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden.
Additional information is available by calling the NJ Sharing Network at (800) 742-7365 or visiting www.sharenj.org.
The transplant centers at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital can be reached by calling (732) 235-8695 for information on kidney and pancreas transplants and (732) 235-8264 for heart-transplant information.
Sources: New Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
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