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Banner Good Samaritan Receives Award for Organ and Tissue Donation Efforts
 

 

Phoenix [Nov. 8, 2004] -- The Donor Network of Arizona (DNA) has recognized Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center (BGSMC) in Phoenix for its contributions to the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative, a component of the Gift of Life Initiative launched in 2003. The organ donation "Best Practice" award was presented to Banner Good Samaritan on Nov. 5 at the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association Leadership Conference.

Since establishing a partnership with the DNA and the Breakthrough Collaborative, BGSMC has helped increase the number of organ donors statewide to 23,765 -- of those, more than 1,000 are Banner employees.

As a result of its awareness and education initiatives, BGSMC played a key role in increasing Arizona's donation rate by 87 percent for the year.

The recently initiated non-directed live donor kidney transplant program and the collaboration with the Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury in the Banner Health Donor Team help promote organ donation on both a facility and a system level. To learn more about organ/tissue donation or to become a member of the Banner Health Donor Team, visit www.AZDonorRegistry.org.