Introduction

Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency (LAORA), formerly known as University of Miami Organ Procurement Organization, is a non-profit community service organization certified and regulated by the federal government. The agency obtains organs for clinical transplantation throughout southeast Florida and transports them to transplant centers within the United States. LAORA procures an average of 400 organs annually from 66 donor hospitals within the agency’s area of certification. LAORA’s catchment area, designated by the Department of Health and Human Services, is comprised of six counties in South Florida --- Miami-Dade, Broward, Monroe, Palm Beach, Collier and St. Lucie.

LAORA is dedicated to procuring and fairly distributing organs and tissues for transplantation, providing comfort and assistance to bereaved donor families, educating healthcare professionals and the community about organ donation, and improving transplant success rates by researching innovative organ recovery techniques and preservation technologies.

A division of the DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, LAORA has grown to become one of the most active procurement organizations in the nation, in both quantity and quality of organs recovered. LAORA rescued organs from over 131 donors in 2002, and since the program was initiated in 1978, more than 4,000 organ retrievals have occurred resulting in transplantations for nearly 12,000 persons across the United States.

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