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Date:8/20/2007

t, of the total 95,323 waiting nationwide. The number of organ donors has nearly doubled since 1994 - the year Pennsylvania's Act 102 that helped regulate donation was enacted - growing to 587 statewide in 2006. But CORE and Gift of Life's collective work is far from complete, and 2007 will see a continued focus on more lives being saved.

"We know most people support organ donation - and we want to let everyone know they now have the ability to go online today 24 hours a day, seven days a week and put the designation on their driver's license or photo ID card," said Howard M. Nathan, Gift of Life's president and CEO. "Just click on the 'Sign Up Now' button on http://www.donatelife-pa.org and in 90 seconds, you can register to help save 50 lives."

"We are delighted to be able to offer individuals an easy, convenient way to sign up to be an organ donor," said Susan A. Stuart, president and CEO of CORE. "We believe the simplicity and ease of the sign-up process will result in many more organ donors in our state."

CORE is a regional not-for-profit agency that is the primary call center and intermediary for the organ recovery and allocation process that serves 156 hospitals and more than six million people in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Chemung County in New York. CORE has helped to pioneer organ procurement allocation and recovery for this region since it was founded in 1977 as the Pittsburgh Transplant Foundation.

Since 1974, Gift of Life has served as the link between donors and patients awaiting life-saving transplants in the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. In that tenure, Gift of Life has coordinated more than 25,000 life-saving organ transplants and hundreds of thousand tissue transplants.

Funding for the Web portal was provided from the Governor Robert P. Casey Memorial Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Trust Fund.

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SOURCE Gift of Life Donor Program; Center for Organ Recovery & Education Copyright©2007 PR Newswire.

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