Jenna received a life-saving liver transplant as an infant. Being a liver recipient has never held her back in life. She had to take anti-rejection medicine and had a scar, but she was a healthy and energetic child and teen.
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Donor parents and teachers, Dave and Liz Kennedy, use their experience in their son’s passing to educate students and the public about organ and tissue donation.
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Gift of Life Donor Program celebrates CHOP, Penn Medicine and Shriners Hospitals for Children For Their Collaboration on Groundbreaking Surgery, Made Possible by a Donor and His/Her Family. Today, nine-year-old […]
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Students of the LCCC Nursing 240 class conducted a community event on campus to focus on the importance of organ and tissue donation. Donor information was provided along with contact […]
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For Robin Larocca, her lungs ravaged by a rare disease, the options were disappearing quickly. In three months, her doctors said, she would be too sick for the transplant she […]
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A lung transplant saved Keith Chalmers life and allowed him to give back to his community in honor of his donor.
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The Gift of Life Donor Program is gearing up to mark National Minority Donor Awareness Week. The week of awareness, observed Aug. 1-7, serves to honor the generosity of multicultural […]
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Gift of Life Ambassador, Bill Murray, has been waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant for more than five years.
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LAKE WYNONAH — The heart transplant Ron Boris Jr. received in 2009 gave him more than a longer life. It also gave him the opportunity to play basketball, doubles badminton […]
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When Gregory Council received a life-saving liver transplant, he immediately began volunteering with Gift of Life. After he passed, his wife continued his legacy of giving back and volunteers regularly advocating for organ and tissue donor awareness.
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