St. Luke's Recognized Nationally for Promoting Organ, Eye and Tissue Donation
Posted on Sep 5, 2018
By St. Luke's, Duluth
St. Luke’s has received platinum recognition for promoting enrollment
in organ donor registries.
St. Luke’s took part in a national campaign sponsored by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA). The campaign has added more than 443,000 donor
enrollments to state registries since its inception in 2011.
St. Luke’s conducted awareness and registry campaigns to educate
staff, patients, visitors and community members about the critical need
for organ, eye and tissue donors. Doing so increased the number of potential
donors on the state’s donor registry. The hospital earned points
for each activity implemented between October 2017 and April 2018 and
was awarded platinum recognition through the HRSA Workplace Partnership
for Life Hospital Campaign. Of the more than 1,200 hospitals and transplant
centers participating in the campaign only 450 earned platinum awards.
BELOW:
(Left to Right) Jennifer Lamblez, Donor Development Liaison Lions Gift
of Sight, Katelyn Wilson, RN, BSN, BSW Clinical Hospital Coordinator LifeSource,
Karen Sidorowicz, RN, BSN, CCRN St. Luke’s Critical Care Nurse Manager
