Donate Life Ohio Green Chair to be at Southeastern Med
Written by: Kelli Koch
Marketing/Communications Specialist
Southeastern Med
CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, April 15, 2011 – Take a seat to take a stand for the Donate Life Ohio’s Green Chair Campaign. Southeastern Med will have the green chair on display in its main lobby April 21-25.
When empty, the Donate Life Ohio Green Chair represents the loss of someone who never found a donor. Likewise, someone sitting in the chair can represent the new hope of a donor whose “Gift of Life” will be the second chance for someone in need.
The Donate Life Ohio Green Chair travels around the state to help educate Ohioans about the benefits and need for organ, eye and tissue donation. The goal is to fill the green chair with more registered donors so it will not go empty for those waiting on life-saving organ transplants.
To learn more about organ donation and to hear personal donation stories from local recipient’s and family donors, Southeastern Med will also host a Celebrate Life Event on April 25 at 6:30 p.m. in the medical center’s Morrison Room. The event is part of the medical center’s celebration of April as National Organ Donation Awareness Month, a month dedicated to those who gave the “Gift of Life” and honoring those whose lives were saved or enhanced by receiving an organ or tissue transplant.
Southeastern Med is one of 71 hospitals in central and southeast Ohio to partner with Lifeline of Ohio, a Donate Life Organization that promotes and coordinates the donation of human organs and tissue for transplantation.
For more information about the event or organ donation, please call Kathy Warhola, RN, BSN, Regional Representative for Lifeline of Ohio, at 1-800-525-5667, ext. 344. Don’t let another chair go empty, please visit www.donatelifeohio.org and register today.
