How You Can Donate Life

The Gift of Life comes in many different ways through many different stories, personalities, lives and backgrounds. Through organ and tissue donation, you have the capability to save and enhance the lives of up to fifty people. Few things we leave behind in life could be as important.

Community Blood Donation through Upstate New York Transplant Services is your chance to give the Gift of Life now - prior to any end of life decisions you may want made. In taking just forty-five minutes of your time in donating one unit of blood, you have the opportunity to save up to three lives given the different life-saving elements of your donation.

To find out more about community blood donation through Upstate New York Transplant Services, call our Community Blood Service hotline at 716.853.6667 ext. 7940 or visit the Community Blood Service homepage.

With regard to registering as an organ and tissue donor, follow the following important steps. Please remember that signing the back of your Driver's License is not enough! Although it is an act in support of donation, it does not enroll you in the electronic statewide database readily accessible by hospitals and procurement organizations.

STEP 1: Tell your family of your intention to donate. This is the most important step.

STEP 2: Enroll in the New York State Donate Life Registry.