More than 112,000 people are currently waiting for life-saving transplants.
Every 10 minutes another name is added to the national transplant waiting list.
An average of 18 men, women, and children die each day from the lack of available organs for surgery.
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) is the unified transplant network established by the United States Congress under the National Organ Transplant Act (NOTA) of 1984.