User Guide This report contains a wide range of useful information about the operations and performance of the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO). The report is divided into seven main sections: A. Description of the Donation Service Area (DSA) Served by CORS B. US Population Density, Deaths, Death Rates, and Donations C. Organ Utilization D. Description of Donors Recovered by CORS E. Programs Transplanting Organs Procured by CORS F. Transplants Facilitated by CORS G. Counties Served by CORS Some common abbreviations are used throughout the report: Organ Designators: HR: Heart IN: Intestine KI: Kidney LI: Liver LU: Lung PA: Pancreas Other Abbreviations: DSA: Donation Service Area DBD: Donation after Brain Death DCD: Donation after Circulatory Death Section A: Description of the Donation Service Area Served by CORS Section A provides a broad geographic overview of the area of the United States served by the OPO. Figure A1 shows the DSA within the context of the nation with the location of the OPO’s headquarters indicated on the map. Figure A2 zooms in on the OPO’s DSA and highlights counties served by the OPO. SRTR staff worked with each OPO during 2013 to determine the list of counties functionally served by the OPO. This list may not necessarily match the list of official CMS-designated counties for each OPO. For a full description of the counties served, see Section G. Figure A2 also shows the locations of transplant programs within the DSA. All transplant programs within the DSA are identified in Table A1. Note that only programs that performed at least one transplant of the various types from 07/01/2012 to 06/30/2013 are
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