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Covenant Health System Recognized for Supporting Organ and Tissue Donation
Aug. 19, 2011 — LifeGift, the nonprofit organ recovery agency with offices in Southeast, North and West Texas, presented Covenant Health System with an award for its support for encouraging more Texans to register as organ and tissue donors.
The hospital participated in LifeGift’s first-ever Donate Life – Texas Registry Challenge during the month of April, which is National Donate Life Month. The purpose of the challenge was to raise awareness of donation and to encourage more health care professionals to make the commitment of becoming registered organ, eye and tissue donors.
Convenant Health Services encouraged its staff to participate in the challenge, either by registering as donors or providing proof that they already were registered on their driver’slicense or by printing out a certificate from the Donate Life – Texas Registry web site. Of the major hospitals that participated in LifeGift’s West Region, Covenant Health System had the greatest participation from its staff.
“We’d like to thank all of the hospitals that participated in helping us add more names to the donor registry,” said Sam Holtzman, president and CEO of LifeGift. “The hospitals not only generated more registrants; each facility also heightened awareness of donation among their staffs. Health care professionals are by far some of the strongest advocates and we hope that they will take the donation message into their local communities.”
For more information about LifeGift and about the registry, visit www.lifegift.org. For more information about Covenant Health System, visit www.covenanthealthsystem.org.
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