Flag-raising ceremony held for National Donate Life Month
On April 16, Riverside Healthcare and Gift of Hope hosted a flag-raising ceremony in honor of National Donate Life Month. The family of Amari Crite spoke about Amari’s gift of tissue donation following her passing last year. The family then helped raise the Gift of Hope flag.
Also speaking at the event were Riverside Vice President of Nursing Ellen Bollino and Gift of Hope’s Alexis Plumb. Riverside Chaplain Marsha Collins blessed the flag.
Riverside and Gift of Hope’s partnership in 2024, by the numbers:
- 10 families offered the opportunity for organ donation
- 8 families were supported throughout the organ donation process
- 4 patients became organ donor heroes, 4 became Donors in Spirit
- 9 life saving organs were recovered and transplanted
- 57 families offered the opportunity for tissue donation
- 36 families consented and were supported throughout the tissue donation process
- 20 individuals were able to be successful tissue donors and give countless life enhancing tissues to others
