Hospitals and medical professionals

HOSPITALS, MEDICAL AND HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

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New Mexico Donor Services and New Mexico hospitals share responsibility to ensure that an individual's decision to be a donor is followed or their family is given the option to donate organs and/or tissue.

Hospitals identify potential donors, make timely referrals, and manage the patients to allow NMDS to evaluate the patient for donor suitability and check donor status on their driver's license or ID.

NMDS and hospital staff work collaboratively in helping families understand brain death, provide support with end of life decisions, and give families the opportunity to follow their loved one's decision to make an informed decision regarding organ donation.

New Mexico Donor Services provides in-service education programs for all New Mexico hospitals and staff. These learning programs, ranging from nursing orientation to medical grand rounds, are essential to the collaborative spirit of donation, and help address the needs of donor families and patients needing transplantation.

Links for New Mexico and Donation:

U.S. Transplant - Scientific Registry about U.S. transplants, including information on Hospital Donation Rates, Transplant Centers and Organ Donor Programs.

New Mexico Lions Eye Bank - Information about cornea and eye donation in New Mexico.

Office of the Medical Examiner - The Medical Examiner's office for the State of New Mexico.

Body Donation for Research - After organs and tissues are recovered for transplant, It's possible to donate body for research to the International Institute for the Advancement of Medicine (IIAM). Remains are cremated and returned to family at no cost. No pre-registration is required.

Body Donation to Medical School - Information about donation to the UNM Medical School. Only corneas can be donated for transplant. Remains are cremated at no cost.
Pre-registration is required.

Blood Donation - Information about blood donation.

Marrow Donation - Information about the bone marrow registry and marrow donation.