The Center for Organ Recovery & Education (CORE), a 2019 Baldrige Award recipient, is a nonprofit organ procurement organization (OPO) in Pittsburgh with a federally designated service area encompassing a population of 5.5 million in western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and one county in New York. One of 56 independent, nonprofit OPOs designated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CORE’s mission is to save and heal lives through donation.

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