Core
Organ recovery teams
Surgical and recovery teams carried to the donor hospital and back, with the car held from dispatch until the procurement is complete.
Nationwide dispatch · 24/7/365
The ground leg of a lifesaving mission.
Nationwide on-call executive transport for transplant surgeons and organ recovery teams. Headquartered in Raleigh at RDU and connected coast to coast through our charter partners: a car at the hospital, the surgeon's door or the aircraft within the hour, held for the team until the recovery is done.
45–60Minutes from call to car
24/7/365Nights, weekends, holidays
2011Serving the Triangle since
NationwideRamp-side charter connections
Raleigh, NC · --:-- ET
Status On call now
Coverage Nationwide · HQ Raleigh-Durham (RDU)
Billing By the hour, waits included
Saving lives every day
Donors don't keep office hours. Neither do we.
A donor organ can become available at any hour, with almost no warning. When it does, a surgical team has to move: from home to hospital, from hospital to the runway, from the runway to a donor hospital, and back with the organ. We drive every one of those legs.
When the transplant team calls, a car is already on its way.
Recovered hearts and lungs often travel on organ perfusion or preservation devices. Our chauffeurs load, secure and deliver them with the team, every time.
Anatomy of a recovery run
Six legs. One unbroken chain.
Every organ recovery depends on ground transport that never misses. Here is where we sit in the chain, from the first call to the team's return.
Organ procurement org.
Organ offered
A donor is identified and the organ is offered to the transplant center.
Transplant center
Dispatch called
The center's coordinator calls our dispatch, day or night.
WWUNOS
At the door
A car arrives at the hospital or the surgeon's home in under an hour.
WWUNOS
To the runway
The team is driven to the RDU ramp for a charter flight, or straight to the donor hospital.
WWUNOS
Held on standby
The car waits with the team until the procurement is complete, however long it takes.
WWUNOS
Home with the organ
Team and organ are returned to the transplant center, ready for surgery.
An illustrative overnight recovery. Times vary with every case; long recoveries and flight delays are covered.
Services
Built for short notice, around the clock.
Any hour
Surgeon home pickups
Surgeons collected at home at 3 a.m. or 3 p.m. and delivered to the hospital or the ramp without a wasted minute.
RDU
Airport and charter connections
Ramp-side meets for charter and commercial flights at RDU, including waits for late or delayed aircraft.
Nationwide
Hospital to hospital
Local, regional and out-of-state donor hospitals, wherever the recovery takes the team.
Inbound
Visiting transplant teams
Teams from across the country met at the aircraft, driven to the donor hospital and returned to the ramp.
Executive
Physicians and leadership
Discreet chauffeured transport for physicians, recruits and health-system events, held to the same standard.
Our standard
The people behind the wheel are why hospitals trust us.
Transplant programs don't choose a driver on price. They choose the team that has never let a recovery wait. Every chauffeur meets the same bar before their first call.
- 01Background checkedCriminal background screening before hire.
- 02Driving record reviewedMotor vehicle record review for every chauffeur.
- 03Drug screenedDrug testing as a condition of driving for us.
- 04Hospital vendor credentialedCleared through the health system's own vendor credentialing, so teams are never held at the door.
- 05Hands-free, always reachableHands-free phones keep dispatch, coordinators and teams connected on every leg.
- 06Fully insuredCommercial coverage, with client institutions named as additional insured on request.
- 07Discreet by defaultWe carry surgeons, organs and sensitive information. What happens in the car stays there.
Fleet
Spotless, staged and ready at any hour.
Full-size Chevrolet SUVs with room for a surgical team, their equipment and preservation devices, kept fueled and staged around the clock.
Surgeon Transport Team livery
"Saving Lives Every Day" livery, four views
Late-model SuburbansCurrent and recent model years
Team-size cabinsSurgeons, staff and gear in one car
Staged 24/7Fueled, cleaned and ready to roll
Device-readySecure space for preservation cases
Why it matters
More transplants every year. More teams on the road.
US transplants per year
Five record years in a row
Source: UNOS annual transplant data releases, 2022–2026.
49,064organ transplants in the US in 2025, a record for the fifth straight year.
+43%more US deceased donors in 2024 than in 2019, and more recoveries on site.
1 in 2US deceased donors in 2025 were donation after circulatory death, recovered by dedicated surgical teams on the road.
100,000+people still waiting on the national transplant list.
Reach
Headquartered at RDU. Serving recovery teams nationwide.
Our headquarters sits minutes from RDU and the Triangle's transplant hospitals. From there, recovery missions reach donor hospitals across the country: our chauffeurs carry teams to the aircraft, and our charter and organ logistics partners carry them coast to coast.
Air partners nationwide. Close working relationships with private jet operators make the hand-off between car and aircraft seamless at both ends of the flight.
Who we serve
Partners across the transplant chain.
Transplant centers
On-call cars for heart, lung, liver and kidney recovery teams, dispatched by your coordinators.
Organ procurement organizations
Ground support for recovery staff traveling to donor hospitals near and far.
Air medical and organ logistics
The ground legs for national flight and organ logistics partners, at both ends of the flight.
Health systems
Executive transport for physicians, recruits and leadership, held to transplant-grade standards.
About us
Founded in Raleigh. Built around one promise.
Josh Gray started the company in 2011 and built it around the people who can't afford a late car: transplant surgeons and the recovery teams who travel with them. Today WWUNOS is a credentialed, on-call team that has made the overnight run to the runway its specialty, on recovery missions that reach across the country.
Every chauffeur, every vehicle and every dispatch decision answers to the same standard: the team gets there, and the organ gets home.
Josh Gray · FounderWorld Wide UNOS Logistics LLCRaleigh, North Carolina
Work with us
Put a dedicated recovery car on call.
Transplant programs, procurement organizations and air partners: tell us about your teams and we'll set up dispatch, credentialing and billing around how you work.
Active recovery underway?
Existing partners call our 24/7 dispatch line directly. This form is for new partnerships and scheduled transport.