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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Dr. Errichetti named to Gift of Hope board

Daily Herald
Ann Errichetti, MD, MBA, president of Advocate Condell Medical Center, is among the most recent appointments to the Board of Directors of Gift of Hope, a not-for-profit organization that coordinates organ and tissue donation.

Gift of Hope works with 180 hospitals serving 12 million people in Illinois and Northwest Indiana. It is one of 58 organ procurement organizations that make up the nation's donation system. Since 1987, Itasca-based Gift of Hope has saved the lives of more than 18,000 organ transplant recipients and improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of tissue transplant recipients.

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