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Share Your Life Share Your Decision Be an Organ and Tissue Donor! Did You Know that a Single Organ and Tissue Donor Can Benefit up to 100 Individuals? Don't Take Your Organs To Heaven....Heaven Knows We Need Them Here!

	More than 80,000 people await a life saving organ transplant in the United States, nearly half are of minority descent (Source: www.unos.org 04/03/03)
	The allocation (matching) of kidneys and the success of their transplantation are most dependent on a good genetic match. Successful matches are most often found within the same racial or ethnic groups.
	People of Hispanic, African, Asian and Native American descent have a greater need for kidney transplants due to higher rates of diseases such as diabetes and hypertension.

For information specific to African Americans visit www.shareyourlife.org/africanamerican.

For information specific to Latinos, visit www.donevida.org.

Minority Perspectives

Regional Offices

Golden State Donor Services 1.916.567.1600 Referrals 1.800.762.8819 Fax 1.916.567.8300

Mountain Region Donor Services 1.423.915.0808 Referrals 1.888.562.3774 Fax 1.423.915.1170

New Mexico Donor Services 1.505.843.7672 Referrals 1.800.843.7672 Fax 1.505.343.1828

Sierra Eye and Tissue Donor Services 1.916.569.0200 Referrals 1.800.762.8819 Distribution 1.800.435.5780 Fax 1.916.569.0300

Tennessee Donor Services Nashville 1.615.234.5251 1.888.234.4440 Referrals 1.800.969.4438 Fax 1.615.320.1655

Tennessee Donor Services Chattanooga 1.423.756.5736 Fax 1.423.756.5904

Tennessee Donor Services Knoxville 1.865.588.1031 Fax 1.865.588.5903

Tennessee Donor Services Jackson 1.731.425.6393

Our Corporate Office

DCIDS Organ Services 1.888.234.4440

DCIDS Tissue Services 1.888.234.4399

DCIDS Tissue Orders 1.888.216.0319

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