Gift of Life sets organ and tissue records – again Milestones keep coming in Michigan
efforts that include the Check Your Heart campaign. Donation and transplants are on the rise across the nation. Still, with more than 100,000 patients waiting nationwide for life-saving organs, neither Gift of Life nor its contemporaries can rest, Dorrie said. About 2,400 are waiting for organs in Michigan. “Our work is so important and as long as there is a list of patients waiting in Michigan and the U.S., we must strive to do more.”
Gift of Life’s president and CEO. “I tell them our teams are dedicated and, as part of that, we’re focused on our opportunities to increase donors so we can help the people who depend on us. “And, of course, donors and their families really want to save and heal lives. We’re helping them do that.” Dorrie said a few changes have helped. They include hiring more staff, offering more donation education in schools statewide, including the U.P., and marketing
BY BETSY MINER-SWARTZ
Gift of Life Michigan helped a record 63 people become organ donors in May, resulting in another record 167 organs transplanted in a single month. That same month saw the highest number of tissue donors — 177 — ever. And that milestone fell in June when 179 donors gave gifts of tissue for healing and mobility. “On the national front, our colleagues are asking ‘What’s going on in Michigan?’” said Dorrie Dils,
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