Donor Family Memorial Quilt on display at Baptist Regional Medical Center
Date: April 29, 2011
From: Baptist Regional Medical Center
We are pleased to invite the public to view the Donor Family Memorial Quilt which will be on display in the lobby of Baptist Regional Medical Center in Corbin, Kentucky on Friday, April 29th. You are urged to come and view the Quilt between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. at a display in the lobby.
This Quilt memorializes individuals who offered the Gift of Life to others through organ and tissue donation and transplantation. Today, in the United States alone, over 110,000 people are on the waiting list for a life saving organ transplant. Of those people, over 750 are residents of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Some of them may live in our own community!
We will also offer at this time a table of information, staffed by a member of the Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates who will be able to answer your questions about organ donation and will offer members of our community the opportunity to register on the newly created Kentucky Organ Donor Registry! This registry will enable you to place your name on the registry listing, stating your wishes to be an organ donor. If you have signed your driver’s license in the past, it is now necessary to take this next step and sign the Kentucky Organ Donor Registry.
If you have questions, please call Martha Steel at 528-1212 ext. 4535. If you are interested in having a free presentation about organ donation at your next civic organization meeting, please call 1-800-525-3456, and ask for Charlotte Wong.