WellSpan York Hospital is one of 15 Pennsylvania hospitals to receive a Silver Medal of Honor for their successful donation and transplant outcomes from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Medals of Honor are given in recognition of hospitals who achieve one or more of the following criteria: a conversion rate of 75% or higher, 3.75 organ transplants per donor, and at least 10% of organ recoveries occur through donation after cardiac death.
“Gift of Life works closely with its hospital partners to help create the opportunity for donation, out of what is often a difficult, stressful situation for our donor families,” said Gift of Life President and CEO Howard Nathan.
“Knowing the importance of these gifts helps our health care partners to be dual advocates for both donor families and transplant recipients.”
Other regional hospitals to receive a Silver Medal of Honor include Geisinger Medical Center, Holy Spirit Hospital, Lancaster General Hospital, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Pinnacle Health Harrisburg, Reading Hospital Medical Center and St. Luke’s Hospital.
Gift of Life encourages individuals to make the commitment to donate by registering online at www.donors1.org.
For more information on organ and tissue donation, call Gift of Life at 1-800-366-6771 or visit www.donors1.org.