Do the research if your life depends on it, but New Orleans, Indianapolis, and Tennessee are good bets. Georgia and Florida too.
The reasons are morbidly fascinating and too detailed to go into here.
The reasons are morbidly fascinating and too detailed to go into here.
Midwest and southern generosity typically drives higher donation rates. Neighboring states may draw organs from your state.
Transplant hospitals that do many cases get really good at it, and have enough experience that they will use organs other centers will reject. My liver was rejected by at least one other transplant center before it arrived in Indianapolis. (They let me see it before surgery. How cool is that?) So think twice before ruling out an organ just because someone else said no.
Blood type, physical size, and exact timing of things can cause lucky breaks.