Organ & Tissue Recovery

Organ Recovery
After the family has given consent for donation, a LifePoint team of clinical professionals work together to honor the family’s wishes for donation. They assess the donor and register them with the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) in preparation for locating the potential recipients.

Once the recipient(s) have been located, LifePoint makes the necessary arrangements to recover the organs and ensure that they are made available for transplantation.

Tissue Recovery
After the family has given consent and a LifePoint Donation Coordinator has assessed and determined the donor’s suitability via conducting a thorough medical and social history with the donor’s next-of-kin, a LifePoint team of clinical specialists is dispatched to the hospital to perform the recovery process.

Once the recovery process is completed, LifePoint sends the donor’s tissue to one of their processing partners’ facilities where it is prepared for transplantation/implantation.

Eye Recovery
After the family has given consent and a LifePoint Donation Coordinator has assessed and determined the donor’s suitability via conducting a thorough medical and social history with the donor’s next-of-kin, a LifePoint clinical specialist is dispatched to the hospital to perform the recovery process.

Once the recovery process is completed, the donor tissue is sent to LifePoint’s Ocular Distribution Center where it is prepared, evaluated, and released for distribution to ocular transplant surgeons and their patients.

>> A Minute-by-Minute Donor Case Scenario