21.   Also Tuesday, HHS release guidelines to help hospitals and organ banks implement new rules that require hospitals to notify organ banks whenever someone dies in the hospital.

22.   Anything that prompts discussion is likely to be helpful, said Susan Gunderson, president of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations and director of a Minnesota organ bank.

23.   Before his transplant, the organ bank sent an average of just six cards per week.

24.   Before that, the organ bank sent an average of just six cards per week.

25.   Each organ bank in the United States generally offers organs first locally, then regionally, then nationally.

26.   Her corneas were donated to an organ bank.

27.   --HHS now is requiring hospitals that receive Medicare payments -- essentially, all hospitals -- to notify local organ banks of every death.

28.   HHS also has required hospitals to report deaths to local organ banks so transplant professionals can identify potential donors and approach their survivors.

29.   HHS also has moved to require hospitals to report deaths to local organ banks so transplant professionals can identify potential donors and approach their survivors.

30.   Local organ banks say the news coverage generated by his case already has made a difference.