VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeNet merges with Florida Tissue Services to expand its services in the Florida donation area.
Florida Tissue Services, a non-profit founded in 1999, works with more than 15 hospitals and a number of medical examiner offices to offer the donation option to families and recover tissue in consented cases. LifeNet will coordinate the processing and distribution of the tissue to provide biomedical implants to surgeons in the Florida area. Florida Tissue Services operates two offices, in Pensacola and Jacksonville.
Through the merger, LifeNet will be able to provide additional resources to Florida Tissue Services and expand its public education work, donor family services programs, and their public presence in the local Florida communities.
“This is a wonderful opportunity for us to assist Florida Tissue Services and enhance the lives of more patients in the Northern Florida area. We are excited to offer our services and help Florida Tissue Services and its community grow,” says Rony Thomas, LifeNet CEO.
Darice Langham, founder of FTS, states “We have been fortunate enough to have the privilege of serving donor families and health care facilities that put their trust and confidence in our organization. Our merger with LifeNet will allow us to continue our work and provide additional services to the community. We are so lucky to have the opportunity to give back to the community.”
LifeNet, founded in 1982, is a full service biomedical tissue banking system and a leading non-profit organ and tissue donation agency whose mission is saving lives and restoring health. LifeNet provides recovery and processing services for musculoskeletal and cardiovascular tissues, distributing more than 200,000 biomedical implants every year to restore health to patients around the world.
More information on LifeNet is available at http://www.lifenet.org. Contact: Dena Reynolds 800-847-7831
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CONTACT: Dena Reynolds of LifeNet, +1-800-847-7831
Web site: http://www.lifenet.org/
