Fast Facts About WRTC

• Founded in 1986
• Federally designated as the organ procurement organization (OPO) for Washington, DC, Northern Virginia and suburban Maryland since 1988
• Non-profit organization provides full-service organ, tissue and eye recovery
• Responds to potential donors at more than 44 area healthcare institutions
• Serves approximately 4.7 million area residents
• Coordinates with all six area transplant centers and the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)
• Provides support to more than 4,000 donor family members
• Acts as the community and professional education resource for organ and tissue donation in the Washington, DC, region

WRTC recovery staff members with medical director Dr. Carlos Fernandez-Bueno