Florida s Organ Donor Registry Among Highest In Nation baynews9.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from baynews9.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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TAMPA, FLA.- â The LifeLink Foundation said more lives were saved through organ donation last year than ever before despite a pandemic.
LifeLink Foundation serves 15 counties on the west coast of Florida.
In 2020, there were 295 organ donors and 913 organs were transplanted.
LifeLink of Florida continued to recover organs through deceased donors throughout the pandemic. We were grateful to see we were able to save more lives than ever in 2020 despite challenges of COVID-19, said Ashley Moore with the LifeLink Foundation. We actually hit 11.4 million donors registered in the state of Florida and that actually makes us the third largest registry in the country. she added.
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Two tissue transplant professionals and 13 tissue and cornea donors will be honored on the 2021 Donate Life floral sculpture, “Community of Life,” which will be part of the Tournament of Roses’ 2021 TV special, “The Rose Parade’s New Year Celebration presented by Honda,” airing on New Year’s Day.
The 2021 Donate Life floral sculpture, “Community of Life” is the centerpiece of a national effort to reach a broad audience with the powerful message that organ, eye and tissue donation saves and heals lives. The cornea and tissue donors represented on the 2021 Donate Life floral sculpture include men, women and children whose generous gifts have healed hundreds of grateful recipients who have regained their sight, restored mobility, healed their burns or overall enjoy a better quality of life, thanks to cornea and tissue transplants.
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