Description
This map shows the percentage of the population 18 years of age or older enrolled in the New York State Donate Life Registry by county. The registry is a confidential database that records a person’s consent to organ/tissue donation upon death. The database is used by donation professionals to determine a person's donation status at the time of their death. For more information, check out: www.health.ny.gov/donatelife. The "About" tab contains additional details concerning this dataset.
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- enrollment, county, population, organ procurement, community health and chronic disease
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Licensing and Attribution
- Data Provided By
- New York State Department of Health
- Source Link
- http://www.health.ny.gov/donatelife
Dataset Information
- Agency
- Health, Department of
Dataset Summary
- Time Period
- Beginning 2000
- Posting Frequency
- Monthly
- Dataset Owner
- Division of Hospitals and Diagnostic &Treatment Centers/ Organ Transplant and Donation Unit
- Coverage
- Statewide
- Granularity
- County
- Units
- Enrollments
- Organization
- Office of Health Systems Management
- Data Frequency
- Monthly
Disclaimers
- Limitations
- The Department depends on the enrolled individual to inform the Department of any changes to their enrollment, such as, change of address. Also, an individual may enroll multiple times through different portals of entry. Therefore, the data set may include persons who are deceased, have left the state or have multiple enrollments.
Notes
- Notes
- This data set contains information on the number of enrollments in the Donate Life Registry by county and percentage of the eligible New York State population. Enrollment in the registry is legal consent to organ/tissue donation at the time of a person’s death. A person must be 18 years of age or older to be eligible for enrollment in the registry.
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