Organ Procurement Organization
Internet URL
http://tlb.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=OPO_s_by_state 
Sponsoring Agency
Description
This site provides information on Organ Procurement Organizations, (OPO) are federally franchised to actually procure donor organs, send surgical teams into hospitals of the donors to take the donated organs) and to transport the organ(s) to the hospital where the chosen recipient waits. The job of the procurement coordinator is to approach the family and ask for the gift of life.