Yesterday, Orange County Global Medical Center participated in OneLegacy’s ninth annual “Donation & Transplantation Symposium” event at the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel and Convention Center in Pomona.
(ORANGE, CA)- Yesterday, Orange County Global Medical Center participated in OneLegacy’s ninth annual “Donation & Transplantation Symposium” event at the Sheraton Fairplex Hotel and Convention Center in Pomona. The presentation was titled “making history in California ".
“It is a sad truth that nationwide 22 people die each day while waiting to receive a lifesaving heart, liver, lung, kidney and/or pancreas; but there is simply not enough to fill the need,” said OneLegacy Chief Operating Officer Prasad Garimella. “We want to provide attendees the tools and information they need to help raise public awareness of the importance and power of being a donor.”
“Our hospital is honored to be a part of OneLegacy’s annual symposium, as we understand the overwhelming need and importance of organ donation. In fact, I am very proud our facility was the first hospital to send an organ donor to the OneLegacy recovery center in Redlands, Ca,” said Orange County Global Medical Center Chief Nursing Officer Ellen Kuhnert. “The selfless gift of organ and tissue donation has continued to save, and change, the lives of hundreds of patients, and their families. We are happy to support the mission of OneLegacy.”
Nationwide, a record 34,772 organ transplants were performed in 2017, using organs from both deceased and living donors. This total is a 3.4 percent increase over 2016 and marks the fifth consecutive record-setting year for transplants in the United States. OneLegacy saw a record number of organ donors in 2017, surpassing the previous mark set just a year earlier. Its 487 organ donors and 2,642 tissue and eye donors in 2017 resulted in 1,374 lifesaving organ transplants and up to 200,000 lives healed through tissue and cornea transplantation.
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