We were joined by our friends at Tennova of Cleveland on Mix Mornings to talk about National Donate Life month.

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Tennoa Healthcare – Help Tennova Healthcare Save Lives

4/9/2018

Every week, more than 150 people on the national transplant waiting list die because a lifesaving organ is not available. April is National Donate Life Month, and Tennova Healthcare is urging community members to support organ, eye and tissue donation.

To spread awareness about organ donation and transplantation, the doctors, nurses and staff at Newport Medical Center invite the community to attend a special ceremony at the hospital at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 13—National Donate Life Blue and Green Day. As part of the ceremony, a special organ donation flag will be raised. Refreshments will be served. (In case of inclement weather, the event will be moved to the hospital cafeteria where attendees can watch the flag-raising ceremony through large glass windows.)

“We encourage everyone to show us your Donate Life colors on April 13 by wearing blue and green,” said Dawn Poythress, RN, director of the medical/surgical and cardiac care units at Newport Medical Center. Poythress is also a member of the hospital’s ethics committee, which is spearheading the campaign to raise awareness on the need for organ, eye and tissue donation.

“Today, approximately 117,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant,” Poythress said. “Twenty-two of them will die today because there simply aren’t enough available organs to meet the need. You can help Tennova save lives by signing up to be an organ donor through the state registry website.”

Guest speakers at the Donate Life ceremony in Newport will include Ronnie Hommel, a kidney transplant recipient from Parrottsville, Tennessee; and Laura Forbes, a kidney donor from Newport, Tennessee. In 2011, Forbes donated a kidney to her Uncle Ronnie.

To learn more about organ, eye and tissue donation, visit donatelifetn.org.

About Tennova Healthcare
One of the state’s largest health networks, Tennova Healthcare includes 16 hospitals and more than 115 physician clinics. The combined network has approximately 2,600 licensed beds, 2,800 physicians on the combined active medical staffs, and 9,000 employees, with more than 70,000 admissions and 465,000 emergency department visits each year. Learn more at www.Tennova.com.