Tagged: organ donors

Science/Medicine
4:57 pm
Thu September 29, 2011

A new call for organ donors in Michigan

Credit (photo by Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio)
The pictures and stories of donor & tissue donors and recipients were on display on the state capitol grounds today in Lansing

There’s a new push underway to get more Michiganders to sign up as future organ donors.  

Michigan ranks 44th in the percentage of adults who are registered organ donors.   

Richard Pietroski says that’s not good enough.  He’s the chief executive officer of Gift of Life Michigan.   Pietroski says the 3 thousand critically ill Michiganders waiting for an organ or tissue transplant have to wait longer than they should.  

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Health
6:38 pm
Tue December 14, 2010

Spectrum Hospital completes first heart transplant in west Michigan

Doctors are celebrating the first successful heart transplant done in west Michigan. In February Spectrum Health was approved to perform heart transplants. Three other hospitals in Michigan are allowed to do the complicated procedure, but they’re all located in southeast Michigan.

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