Gift of Life Donor Program Leads the Nation in Organ Donors in 2012
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Thousands were transplanted in 2012 because of the generosity of donors and their families
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gift of Life Donor Programâ€"the region's non-profit, federally designated organ procurement organization (OPO) serving the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delawareâ€"announced that the organization coordinated the recovery of 1,062 life-saving organs from 417 generous individuals in 2012â€"making this region the most generous in the U.S. for organ and tissue donors. Gift of Life is the only OPO in the country to have coordinated more than 400 organ donors in 2012, and for the past seven years, the organization has averaged more than 400 donors per year. Serving nearly 10.3 million people in the region, Gift of Life's coordination of nearly 40 donors-per-million-population ranks among the highest in the world, and speaks to the compassionate and giving spirit of the region.
One organ donor can save the lives of up to eight people and additionally can also enhance the lives of up to 40 others through gifts of tissue, cornea and bone donations. In 2012, Gift of Life coordinated 2,536 tissue donors, whose gifts may benefit up to 75,000 people. This important number includes cornea donors, who have helped to restore precious sight; bone donors, whose gifts have repaired fractures and prevented amputations; donors whose much-needed skin donations have healed burn patients; and selfless donors whose heart valves have prevented life-threatening defects.
None of these remarkable gifts would have been possible without the families and loved ones who made the selfless decision in 2012 to donate during a time of unimaginable grief: Families like Daniel Glover 's.
On a cold, snowy January morning, twenty-four year-old Daniel Glover lost control of his car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike while driving to pay his respects to the family of a college friend who had recently died of cancer. When his family learned that Daniel would not survive injuries sustained during his accident, the Glovers immediately thought of donation. A frequent blood donor and registered bone marrow donor, Daniel was an athlete who cared deeply about his community. The Glovers remembered a family friend, a baseball coach in the family's town of Bergenfield, NJ, who was in need of a liver transplant, and the decision to donate was made.
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PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gift of Life Donor Programâ€"the region's non-profit, federally designated organ procurement organization (OPO) serving the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delawareâ€"announced that the organization coordinated the recovery of 1,062 life-saving organs from 417 generous individuals in 2012â€"making this region the most generous in the U.S. for organ and tissue donors. Gift of Life is the only OPO in the country to have coordinated more than 400 organ donors in 2012, and for the past seven years, the organization has averaged more than 400 donors per year. Serving nearly 10.3 million people in the region, Gift of Life's coordination of nearly 40 donors-per-million-population ranks among the highest in the world, and speaks to the compassionate and giving spirit of the region.
One organ donor can save the lives of up to eight people and additionally can also enhance the lives of up to 40 others through gifts of tissue, cornea and bone donations. In 2012, Gift of Life coordinated 2,536 tissue donors, whose gifts may benefit up to 75,000 people. This important number includes cornea donors, who have helped to restore precious sight; bone donors, whose gifts have repaired fractures and prevented amputations; donors whose much-needed skin donations have healed burn patients; and selfless donors whose heart valves have prevented life-threatening defects.
None of these remarkable gifts would have been possible without the families and loved ones who made the selfless decision in 2012 to donate during a time of unimaginable grief: Families like Daniel Glover 's.
On a cold, snowy January morning, twenty-four year-old Daniel Glover lost control of his car on the Pennsylvania Turnpike while driving to pay his respects to the family of a college friend who had recently died of cancer. When his family learned that Daniel would not survive injuries sustained during his accident, the Glovers immediately thought of donation. A frequent blood donor and registered bone marrow donor, Daniel was an athlete who cared deeply about his community. The Glovers remembered a family friend, a baseball coach in the family's town of Bergenfield, NJ, who was in need of a liver transplant, and the decision to donate was made.
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