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Hospital to Mark ‘National Donate Life Month’
UPMC McKeesport plans annual flag-raising in courtyard near Prescott Bldg
By Submitted Report
The Tube City Almanac
April 09, 2024
Posted in: Announcements
During the 2022 flag-raising ceremony, Jeffrey Alvarez, nursing director at UPMC McKeesport, liver transplant recipient Gene Wagner and Leslie Lash of the Center for Organ Recovery & Education displayed a flag for “National Donate Life Month.” (Tube City Almanac file photo)
UPMC McKeesport will join doctors, nurses, professional staff and patients for a flag-raising ceremony to celebrate April as “National Donate Life Month.”
The event will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the courtyard of the hospital, near the Prescott Building, a spokeswoman said.
National Donate Life Month, recognized each April, is an annual commemoration of organ donors and the recipients they have helped. A UPMC spokeswoman said more than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, and at least 17 will die each day waiting to receive an organ.
Each donor has the potential to save eight lives and help more than 75 people through organ, tissue and cornea donation, according to transplantation experts.
UPMC McKeesport commemorates National Donate Life Month along with the Center for Organ Recovery & Education, Donate Life America and organ procurement organizations throughout the country to Throughout April, CORE is encouraging individuals to register to become an organ, tissue and cornea donor.
Individuals are encouraged to talk with family members and friends about becoming a donor. To sign up, visit www.registerme.org/UPMC.
Originally published April 09, 2024.
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