Donate Life Florida selected to establish new organ donor registry - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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Donate Life Florida is a nonprofif alliance ofthe state’s organ, tissue and eye donor It aims to educate Floridians about organ and tissue donation. The new registry will allow userse to register as adonore online. Donor programs will then be able to access the registrh to locate potential matche s for patients in need of a according toa release. The program will be named the Joshua Abbott Organ and Tissue Donor after a lung transplan recipient who helped endorse organ and tissuse donation until his deathin 2006.
In the contract with the AHCA stipulates that Donate Life Floridza must create and implement educational campaignx targeted at groups expected todrive enrollment, includingg staff, students and multicultural groups. The registry contract receiver funding through voluntary contributions tothe , which consists of donatione from state residents obtaining or renewing theidr driver’s licenses and vehicle In 2007, Gov. Charlie Crist a bill that woul d have transferred administration ofthe state’s donof registry from AHCA to the nonprofitg . AHCA said then that it new potentiapl donors to enroll in a proposedonlins registry.
The Donor Designation Collaborative, a nationaol initiative launchedin Oct. 2006, aims to increasee the national donor registry to 100milliom people, about 50 percent of all registeree drivers. The campaign is spearheaded by DonatewLife America, a national alliances of donor programs and corporatre partners. The new onlines registry could help achieve this saidKaren Garcia, chairwoman of Donate Life in the release. Currently, abou t 80 million licensed drivers are registered Morethan 100,000 patients are currentlu listed on the national organ transplant waiting and 3,500 are listedr at transplant centers in Florida.