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Sign up online through your state registry or in person at your local motor vehicle department. If you have an iPhone, you can use the Health app. It sends your information to a national computer system.
View the dashboard and accompanying PUF for demographic information about organ donors, waitlist candidates/registrants, and transplant recipients, as well as organ-specific data such as procured organ transplantation rates and transplant outcomes for several solid organ types.
There are three ways to sign up: Sign up online now in your state. You may need your driver’s license/ID number to fill out a form. Visit your state local motor vehicle office. Sign up through the Health app on your iPhone. Your information is sent to a national computer system.
Organdonor.gov is an official U.S. government website of the HRSA’s Division of Transplantation. It provides educational information about organ, eye, and tissue donation and transplantation, and promotes donor registration. Use the resources below to answer any questions you have.
Your state donor registry allows you to sign up and to change your information. Many states allow you to choose which organs and tissues you want to donate. In other states, registered donors donate everything that can be used.
Signing up to be an organ donor means you may someday be able to help others in need. Just one donor can provide lifesaving organs to up to eight people. One donor may also impact the lives of others with tissue donation.
Learn about donation after death and why only three in 1,000 people actually become donors even though 170 million are registered.
You can donate a kidney, a piece of your liver, and certain other organs and tissues while alive. About 6,500 living donation transplants take place each year. Unlike deceased donors, a living donor can decide who to donate their organ to, helping a recipient get an organ transplant faster.
If you’re over 18 and signed up as a deceased donor in your state registry, you have legally given permission for your donation. No one can change your consent. Signing a card isn't enough. If you’re under 18, your parents or legal guardian must give permission for your donation.
Explore data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network. Number of men, women, and children on the national transplant waiting list. people die each day waiting for an organ transplant. Every donor can save 8 lives and enhance over 75 more. YOU can help.