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Focus on our Donation Partners

OFFERING HOPE AND HEALING

In 2011, Medical Examiners, Coroners, Funeral Directors and Law Enforcement referred over 300 potential donors to LifeSource. Patients who die outside of a medical facility would not be evaluated for tissue and eye donation if not for the dedication of these donation partners who made the referral to 1-800-24SHARE.   

As a result of those referrals, 125 tissue donors will result in over 6,000 healing tissue grafts, offering hope and healing to many grateful recipients.

Consider making a donation referral from a death scene when you notice “Donor” on a license or ID card or when a family mentions donation. Call 1-800-24SHARE with this information about the potential donor:

• Name and date of birth
• Name and all available phone numbers for the next of kin
• Time of death and/or time last seen alive
• Circumstances surrounding the death
• Any known medical history
• Funeral home name and phone number

The LifeSource Communication Specialist will approach the family about donation and will coordinate the recovery with the pathologist and the funeral home,

Thank you for your continued commitment to donation and your efforts to offer and hope and healing to many waiting recipients.

 

Donation in your community

March 2011

LifeSource worked with you to serve the families of more than 470 tissue donors in 2010. LifeSource works very closely with our tissue  partners to ensure that tissue recovered by LifeSource is returned  to our local hospitals and clinics for life-saving and healing surgeries.  Over 15,000 tissue grafts from LifeSource donors were returned to communities in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota last year. Here are a few places near you:

Albert Lea Medical Center, Albert Lea, MN
Big Fork Valley, Big Fork, MN
Murry City Memorial Hospital, Slayton, MN
Northwest Medical Center, Thief River Falls, MN

Sioux Falls Surgical Center, Sioux Falls, SD
Avera Sacred Heart Hospital , Yankton, SD
Rapid City Regional Hospital, Rapid City, SD
Avera St. Luke’s, Aberdeen, SD

OMS Associates, LTD and MeritCare, Fargo, ND
Trinity Medical Center, Minot, ND
St. Alexius Medical Center and MedCenter One, Bismarck, ND
St. Joseph Hospital Healthcare, Dickson, ND

Chances are you have been to one of these hospital or clinics or know someone who has!  Thank you for your help in sharing these wonderful and healing gifts with men, women and children in our communities.