Donate Life Colorado: Be An Organ & Tissue Donor

Each year organ and tissue donation saves thousands of lives in Colorado and across the United States helping people walk again, see again, and recover from severe burns and other injuries and illnesses.

• In Colorado & Wyoming, more than 1,800 people are currently waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant
• 21 percent of current transplant candidates in Colorado have been on the waiting list for 5 years or more
• Today, more than 101,000 people are waiting for lifesaving organ transplants nationally — an average of 245 people are added to the waiting list each month
• Recoverable organs include: heart, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas and small intestine
  
• Tissues that are recoverable include: bone, tendons and corneas as well veins, valves and skin
• One organ donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation and more than 100 lives through tissue donation
• Every year, the lives of about 500,000 Americans are saved by organ and tissue donation