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Each registered organ donor can save up to 9 lives
Living organ donations at Ochsner
At Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana, living kidney and living liver donations provide life-saving opportunities for both adult and pediatric patients in need of transplants. By donating a kidney or a portion of your liver, you can give someone a second chance at life. Ochsner’s Living Donor Programs are designed to reduce wait times and improve outcomes, offering transplant recipients the chance to receive a timely transplant from a healthy, living donor.
Living Donor Kidney Transplants Living Donor Liver Transplants
Ochsner Transplant Institute programs
The Ochsner Transplant Institute offers a variety of organ transplant programs, such as:
Learn the facts about organ donation
Organ donation saves lives, and it’s an opportunity to make a profound difference. Here’s what you need to know:
- Anyone can register to become an organ donor: Regardless of age or medical history, you can sign up to be a donor. Medical professionals evaluate donation possibilities at the time of death, and only a few conditions, such as active cancer or a systemic infection, may prevent donation.
- Organ donation has no age limit: The oldest recorded donor in the U.S. was 93 years old. The health and condition of your organs at the time of death are what matters most.
- Religious support: Most major religions in the U.S. encourage organ donation as an act of compassion and generosity.
- Life-saving care comes first: Medical teams prioritize saving your life above all else. Organ donation is only considered after all life-saving efforts have been exhausted.
- No costs to families: Organ donation incurs no cost to donors or their families.
- Protected from exploitation: Federal laws strictly prohibit the buying or selling of organs in the United States. Violations carry severe penalties.
- Organ donation typically occurs after brain death, a condition that is final and irreversible: This differs from a coma, from which recovery is sometimes possible.
You can help save and enhance the lives of transplant patients
Your gift makes a difference
Choose to purchase a meal, help with transportation, medication expenses and more through the Gregory Smith Transplant Fund. The Gregory Smith Transplant Fund helps transplant patients with meals, transportation, medication expenses and more. Support our patients by donating to this fund today.
