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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 8, 2011

Gift of Life's 16th Annual Dash for Organ & Tissue Donor Awareness



Join the Penn Transplant Institute and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in the Gift of Life’s 16th Annual Dash for Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness. 

Date: April 17, 2011Time: 10 am/5k run, 10:20 am/10k run, 11 am/ 3k walk

Location: Steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Fee: $25 registration fee before April 14, 2011; $30 after April 14

The Donor Dash is an annual 5K and 10K run, and 3K walk to benefit donor transplantation programs and raise awareness for donor and tissue transplants. The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania & the Penn Transplant Institute are once again taking the pledge to support the Gift of Life and their endless mission to bring awareness to the critical need for organ & tissue donors.

Donor Awareness Counts

The Penn Transplant Institute is celebrating its 45th anniversary of its first kidney recipient. This incredible accomplishment is a testimony to the mission and vision of the Gift of Life program. Because of donor transplantation awareness, and programs like the Donor Dash, lives are saved. This year, the Penn Transplant Institute is honoring donor with special tee shirts at the 2011 Donor Dash.

How You Can Help

To continue the success of donor transplant programs like Penn Medicine’s transplant program, and to continue to raise awareness about organ and tissue donation, the Penn Transplant Institute team need your help.

Join the Penn Transplant Team for the 2011 Gift of Life Donor Dash. Or, if you can’t join the team, consider supporting the team with a donation pledge for organ and tissue donor awareness.

So many lives have been saved by organ donors, and so many more people are waiting to receive the same gift. Please consider joining the Penn Transplant Institute Donor Dash Team, or supporting the team with a donation.

Together, organ and tissue donor awareness can help save the life of another. If you are a donor and are attending the Donor Dash as part of the Penn Transplant Team, e-mail
 
Rebecca Farrell to get your free Penn Medicine tee shirt. Author: Rebecca L. Farrell, BSN, RN, CCTN Clinical Nurse IV, Rhoads 4

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