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In 1999, Legacy opened its Transplant Services, giving patients with kidney failure hope for a brighter future. This year, our 2,000th transplant patient received the gift of a new kidney.

In 2017, Carl Jackson was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease and congestive heart failure. “I didn’t get on the list,” said Jackson. “The transplant list right away. I was on dialysis for six years.” Jackson was considered high risk for receiving a kidney because of his heart condition. After a series of tests and an ICD, an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, he…

When Vincent Scafuri needed a lifesaving kidney transplant due to advanced polycystic kidney disease (PKD), his wife, Griselda Espinosa, offered to be his kidney donor. 

As part of National Donate Life Month, observed annually in April to drive awareness about the importance of organ, tissue and cornea donations, Allegheny Health Network (AHN) will host several celebrations throughout the month at hospitals across its footprint.

In recognition of Donate Life Month, Loyola University Medical Center will host its 32nd annual candle lighting ceremony in honor of organ and tissue donors, their families and countless health care team members. 

April is Donate Life Month, and Piedmont Macon Medical Center is hosting a Donate Life flag-raising ceremony to promote organ donations in the midstate.

Piedmont Augusta held a Donate Life flag-raising ceremony Wednesday, April 3, at 1:08 p.m., on the front lawn of the main hospital.

April is Donate Life Month and Piedmont Columbus Regional will host a free, educational event that is open to the public at its Midtown Campus Conference Center to promote organ donation and bring awareness to the gap in organ donors among minority populations.

Heavy rain and wind didn’t deter a group of Mayo Clinic Transplant Center staff on Monday, June 17 who joined a group of bicyclists raising awareness about the need for living organ donation.

NewYork-Presbyterian, one of the largest, most experienced transplant hospitals in the nation, performed 953 transplant surgeries in 2023, more than any other hospital in the U.S., according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.