ARMC TO HONOR ORGAN AND TISSUE DONORS
– Shayna Grisham was just 21 years old when she died in a car accident two years ago. She worked as a cashier at an automobile dealership and had recently met the love of her life. Shayna was not registered to be an organ donor, but her mother and brother decided donating was something she would have liked. She saved three lives after donating her heart, liver and a kidney.
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, in collaboration with OneLegacy, the federally-designated organ and tissue recovery organization in San Bernardino and surrounding counties, will honor Shayna and 16 other organ and tissue donors and their families at a special Donate Life Rose Ceremony at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening in the Medical Center’s Oak Conference Room.
The Donate Life Rose Ceremony welcomes families of deceased donors served by ARMC to be thanked for their loved ones’ life-saving and healing gifts of organs and tissue. At the ceremony, ARMC will present each family with a certificate and a dedicated rose which will ultimately be placed on the Donate Life float in the 2011 Rose Parade.
“Many lives have been saved from the generosity of families who, along with their loved ones, decided to donate,” said Patrick Petre, ARMC director. “We look forward to honoring them during this special event.”
The Donate Life Rose Ceremony will feature several guest speakers, among them a transplant recipient, a donor family member, hospital director Petre and Associate Administrator Holly Ramos. During the event, each donor family will be handed two rose vials with a special tag where the family can write a personal message to their loved one.
One vial will be kept by the family as a memento, while the other will make its journey to Pasadena, where the vial, carrying a fresh rose, will be ceremonially placed on the Donate Life float a few days before the 122st Rose Parade. At that time, all of the roses commemorating ARMC’s donors will join thousands of roses dedicated through the float’s Donate Life Family Circle program, with personal messages of love, hope and remembrance coming from all over the nation and the world.
“We are deeply grateful to donors and their families for their generous decision to help others in need,” said Bryan Stewart, Donate Life Float Committee chairman and OneLegacy’s vice president of communications. “It is our privilege to present hospitals and donor families an opportunity to reconnect in such a meaningful way and join the nation’s Donate Life community in this international celebration.”
The dedicated roses will be featured in a memorial garden on Donate Life’s eighth Rose Parade float entry, Seize the Day!, which features an array of colorful kites that inspire people to make the most of every moment. Flying a kite evokes dreams, friendships and memories with loved ones, a gift that recipients of life-saving transplants enjoy thanks to the generosity of donors.
OneLegacy is the federally designated, non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives through organ and tissue donation in the seven-county greater Los Angeles area. OneLegacy is also one of the four organ procurement organizations that run Donate Life California, the state’s organ and tissue registry. Since 2004, OneLegacy has coordinated the annual Donate Life Rose Parade float campaign in collaboration with more than 60 organizations nationwide.
ARMC is a state-of-the-art acute care facility offering a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, three family health centers for primary care, a Level II trauma center that is verified by the American College of Surgeons, 24-7 emergency department, mobile medical clinic, regional burn center and more than 60 different specialty services. For more information, visit our Web site atwww.arrowheadmedcenter.org.
Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, in collaboration with OneLegacy, the federally-designated organ and tissue recovery organization in San Bernardino and surrounding counties, will honor Shayna and 16 other organ and tissue donors and their families at a special Donate Life Rose Ceremony at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening in the Medical Center’s Oak Conference Room.
The Donate Life Rose Ceremony welcomes families of deceased donors served by ARMC to be thanked for their loved ones’ life-saving and healing gifts of organs and tissue. At the ceremony, ARMC will present each family with a certificate and a dedicated rose which will ultimately be placed on the Donate Life float in the 2011 Rose Parade.
“Many lives have been saved from the generosity of families who, along with their loved ones, decided to donate,” said Patrick Petre, ARMC director. “We look forward to honoring them during this special event.”
The Donate Life Rose Ceremony will feature several guest speakers, among them a transplant recipient, a donor family member, hospital director Petre and Associate Administrator Holly Ramos. During the event, each donor family will be handed two rose vials with a special tag where the family can write a personal message to their loved one.
One vial will be kept by the family as a memento, while the other will make its journey to Pasadena, where the vial, carrying a fresh rose, will be ceremonially placed on the Donate Life float a few days before the 122st Rose Parade. At that time, all of the roses commemorating ARMC’s donors will join thousands of roses dedicated through the float’s Donate Life Family Circle program, with personal messages of love, hope and remembrance coming from all over the nation and the world.
“We are deeply grateful to donors and their families for their generous decision to help others in need,” said Bryan Stewart, Donate Life Float Committee chairman and OneLegacy’s vice president of communications. “It is our privilege to present hospitals and donor families an opportunity to reconnect in such a meaningful way and join the nation’s Donate Life community in this international celebration.”
The dedicated roses will be featured in a memorial garden on Donate Life’s eighth Rose Parade float entry, Seize the Day!, which features an array of colorful kites that inspire people to make the most of every moment. Flying a kite evokes dreams, friendships and memories with loved ones, a gift that recipients of life-saving transplants enjoy thanks to the generosity of donors.
OneLegacy is the federally designated, non-profit organization dedicated to saving lives through organ and tissue donation in the seven-county greater Los Angeles area. OneLegacy is also one of the four organ procurement organizations that run Donate Life California, the state’s organ and tissue registry. Since 2004, OneLegacy has coordinated the annual Donate Life Rose Parade float campaign in collaboration with more than 60 organizations nationwide.
ARMC is a state-of-the-art acute care facility offering a full range of inpatient and outpatient services, three family health centers for primary care, a Level II trauma center that is verified by the American College of Surgeons, 24-7 emergency department, mobile medical clinic, regional burn center and more than 60 different specialty services. For more information, visit our Web site atwww.arrowheadmedcenter.org.
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