YOU HAVE THE POWER TO SAVE LIVES. PLEDGE AND REGISTER TODAY

Follow us to learn more about organ donation and our national efforts to raise awareness about the critical need for donated organs. We are finding inspiration in unexpected places.

BECAUSE ORGAN & TISSUE DONATION MATTERS

There are over 113,000 Americans waiting for a life-saving transplant. Registering takes only a few minutes. Please encourage your family, friends and colleagues to pledge the "gift of life" by signing up at your State's donor registry. Click HERE to learn how. Californians, please visit Donate Life California.

Our Pledge Life Memorial, "Celebrate Life...Remembrance". We are pledging to HONOR, remember and celebrate the lives of donors, transplant recipients, donation and transplant community members. Will you PLEDGE with us to do the same?
DL Life Logo April 27,2012 - - - - 113,953 AMERICANS ARE CANDIDATES ON THE UNOS TRANSPLANT WAIT LIST DL Life Logo 91,996 waiting for a kidney DL Life Logo 16,098 waiting for a liver DL Life Logo 1,269 waiting for a pancreasDL Life Logo 2,153 waiting for a Kidney-PancreasDL Life Logo 3,172 waiting for a heartDL Life Logo 1,632 waiting for a lungDL Life Logo 52 waiting for a heart-lungDL Life Logo 278 waiting for small bowelDL Life Logo One organ donor has the opportunity to save up to 8 lives DL Life Logo One tissue donor has the opportunity to save and -or enhance the lives of 50 or more individuals DL Life Logo You have the power to SAVE Lives by becoming an organ, eye and tissue donor, so what are you waiting for? To learn how to register click HEREDL Life Logo

Friday, April 16, 2010

NATIONAL DONATE LIFE MONTH-NEW ENGLAND- NEW ENGLAND ORGAN BANK CELEBRATES DONATE LIFE MONTH AND DONATE LIFE FLAGS ACROSS AMERICA

"Flags Across America" is a Donate Life America and New England Organ Bank initiative that invites donor hospital and transplant centers, as well as all recovery agencies, to collectively fly the Donate Life flag during April. The goal is to create a visible and unified statement about the importance of becoming an organ donor and the dire need for donors. This initiative is meant to encourage the public to designate donation decisions by registering their wishes in their state donor registries.


Community members are welcome to learn more about organ donation and to register with representatives from the New England Organ Bank at the three hospitals on the following dates:

* Tobey Hospital in Wareham on Thursday, April 16, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
* St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford on Tuesday, April 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
* Charlton Memorial Hospital on Tuesday, April 28, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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