NJ sharing network

Organ donation in New Jersey reached a new record high in 2021, with 233 organ donors, up from 222 in 2020.

At just 6 months old, Chris Piccininni received a heart transplant in order to survive a condition that was making his own heart unable to pump enough blood.

NJ Sharing Network is encouraging residents in the state's multicultural communities to step up and become organ donors through a new initiative campaign.

And her father is undergoing testing to hopefully donate one of his kidneys in November.

Sponsors of the measure claim such a law could encourage organ donation among the living.

For the first time in 30 years, New Jersey will host the six-day Transplant Games of America in July, 2020.

Bob and his donor Kim Roumes are continuing to "pay it forward" by participating in an event familiar to any follower of the "What's So Great About the Garden State" segment.

Research shows that 95% of U.S. adults support organ donation. But in New Jersey, only about a third are signed up as donors.

The New Jersey Sharing Network reports a record number of successful organ transplants in the state during 2018. And there was an unprecedented number of eye donors who gave the gift of life.

Last year, we told you about the impact the New Jersey Sharing Network has had procuring organ donations from the Garden State's 14 northernmost counties. That effort is continuing with the group's yearly series of 5K run/walks.