What is being done nationally to increase organ, tissue and eye donations?
A. The Department of Health and Human Services has begun an initiative called the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative, with the goal of increasing donations countrywide. Several hundred hospitals throughout the United States (including Mount Carmel West) have been chosen by the Collaborative for a campaign to improve the organ donor “conversion rate” that is, the number of potential organ donors who actually go on to donate their organs. Focusing on education about the lifesaving benefits of organ donation, the Collaborative has reached a nationwide conversion rate of 75%. Mount Carmel is proud of its efforts in the area of organ, tissue and eye donations, knowing that organ donation does save many lives that cannot be rescued in any other way. It’s true what they say: Organ donors are heroes, every day.
