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NORS is a non-profit and exists to recover organs and tissue to save lives, not to benefit shareholders or owners. Decisions about the direction of the organization are led by a board of directors representing different people and business within the donation process.
NORS is a federally designated organ procurement organization by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and must abide by CMS rules and regulations. There are 58 total OPO's nationwide. Each hospital receiving Medicare funding must have a contract with their assigned OPO. OPO's must be independent of hospitals and transplant centers to ensure ethical boundaries exist to separate patient care and the transplantation of donated organs and tissues.
NORS service area includes Nebraska and Pottawattamie Co, IA and are currently contracted with 99 facilities for organ donation and 86 facilities for tissue donation. It does not facilitate whole body donation for science or living donation, only cadaveric organs and tissue procurement.
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Date last modified: August 12, 2013.
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