{"id":78473,"date":"2017-08-24T17:19:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=78473"},"modified":"2017-08-29T01:09:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T08:09:06","slug":"avh-receives-silver-award-for-organ-and-tissue-donation-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/08\/24\/avh-receives-silver-award-for-organ-and-tissue-donation-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"AVH receives Silver Award for organ and tissue donation outreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_78474\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78474\" style=\"width: 734px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78474\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AVH-Award-Organ-and-Tissue-Donation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AVH-Award-Organ-and-Tissue-Donation.jpg 734w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AVH-Award-Organ-and-Tissue-Donation-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">OneLegacy Ambassador John Whalen (left) presents a National Hospital Organ Donation Campaign Silver Recognition Award to AV Hospital Chief Executive Officer Mike Wall. [Contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LANCASTER &#8211; Antelope Valley Hospital (AVH) on Thursday received the Health &amp; Human Services Silver Recognition Award for raising awareness about organ donation. The award was presented by an ambassador from OneLegacy, the organ and tissue recovery organization serving a seven-county area in southern California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The award recognizes AVH\u2019s efforts in encouraging staff and community members to enroll in the state registry as organ, eye and tissue donors. \u00a0The hospital has previously been recognized as the top-performing hospital in all of OneLegacy\u2019s service areas, which includes 240 hospitals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">OneLegacy ambassador and liver recipient, <strong>John Whalen<\/strong>, shared the story of receiving a donor liver before presenting a framed certificate to a team of nurses and other hospital personnel involved in organ and tissue donation education. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am honored to be here to share how the generosity and kindness of a perfect stranger gave me a new chance at life,\u201d said Whalen, as he displayed a photo of his donor. \u201cI appreciate all that AV Hospital does to promote the invaluable gift of organ and tissue donation, which is truly a legacy of love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nearly 22,000 California residents are waiting to receive lifesaving hearts, livers, lungs, kidneys and other organs. A single organ donor can save the lives of up to eight people and improve the lives of as many as 75 more by donating their corneas and tissue.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>[Information via news release from Antelope Valley Hospital.]<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; Antelope Valley Hospital (AVH) on Thursday received the Health &amp; Human Services Silver Recognition Award for raising awareness about organ donation. The award was presented by an ambassador from OneLegacy, the organ and tissue recovery organization serving a seven-county area in southern California. The award recognizes AVH\u2019s efforts in encouraging staff and community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78473"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}