Did you know?

• Each organ donor can save up to eight lives. Each tissue donor can improve the lives of up to 50 people.
• Nearly 10,000 Michigan patients have received a life-saving organ transplant in the last 10 years.
• Cornea transplants have been successful for over 100 years and organ transplants have worked for more than 50.
• On average, 17 Michigan patients receive an organ transplant each week.
• There is no age limit for donation.
• Donation doesn't cost the donor or the donor's family anything.
• In 2008, a record 327 organ donors provided 922 organs to waiting recipients in Michigan. More than 800 people became tissue donors and 1,199 corneas were transplanted.

Organ donor Tim Parker, of Troy, saved the lives of seven people in 2008.

Michigan residents waiting for organs

In 2009, the generosity of Michigan organ donors resulted in 864 transplants and saved hundreds of lives. Transplants so far in 2010 total 368. Michigan patients waiting for a transplant as of June 1, 2010.

Kidney	2,408
Liver	338
Lung	49
Kidney/Pancreas	47
Heart	83
Pancreas	12
Kidney/Liver	26
Kidney/Heart	3
TOTAL	2,972