{"id":11079,"date":"2012-04-09T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=11079"},"modified":"2012-06-30T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:03:49","slug":"av-hospital-raises-flag-and-awareness-of-organ-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/04\/09\/av-hospital-raises-flag-and-awareness-of-organ-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"AV Hospital raises flag and awareness of organ donations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Antelope Valley Hospital staff and OneLegacy leaders hold the 'Donate Life' flag at the conclusion of a ceremony to raise awareness for organ donations in honor of National Donate Life Month in April.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LANCASTER \u2013 In honor of National Donate Life Month in April, Antelope Valley Hospital is calling on members of the community to consider the benefits of organ donation and join the California Donor Registry.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are over 112,000 people on the national waiting list on a regular basis, and over 20,000 in California alone,\u201d said Denise Scott, Chairwoman of the Donor Council for Antelope Valley Hospital. \u201cApproximately 18 people die every day on the waiting list, waiting for those precious organs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hospital staff joined representatives of OneLegacy, the organ and tissue recovery organization serving the greater Los Angeles area, for a flag raising ceremony Monday to honor organ and tissue donors.<\/p>\n

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Workers raise the 'Donate Life' flag on the flagpole at the main entrance of the hospital.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

OneLegacy ambassador, Michelle Godoy, shared a moving story about her brother, who was on the list to receive a liver for about seven years, but died before receiving the transplant.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust because it did not work for my brother and he did not get his liver does not mean that our family has any regrets or bad feelings,\u201d Godoy said. \u201cWe would like to see other families not go through this, so we\u2019ve all become advocates\u2026 you must become donors.\u201d<\/p>\n

OneLegacy CEO Tom Mone said his group, along with AV Hospital, is taking part in the \u201c20 Million in 2012,\u201d campaign, a nationwide initiative that focuses on radically increasing the number of people registered on state donor registries.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo help make sure that everybody gets a transplant that needs one,\u201d Mone said.<\/p>\n

The ceremony ended with the raising of a \u201cDonate Life\u201d flag, on the flagpole at the main entrance of Antelope Valley Hospital.<\/p>\n

For more information on the benefits of organ donation and how to join the California Donor Registry, contact OneLegacy at 800-786-4077 or visit www.onelegacy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You may also register to become an organ, eye and tissue donor online at www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org<\/a> or its Spanish-language counterpart, www.doneVIDAcalifornia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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LANCASTER \u2013 In honor of National Donate Life Month in April, Antelope Valley Hospital is calling on members of the community to consider the benefits of organ donation and join the California Donor Registry. \u201cThere are over 112,000 people on the national waiting list on a regular basis, and over 20,000 in California alone,\u201d said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}