Heart transplant recipient Rachel Kuntzsch

Lansing heart recipient saves lives by telling her story of hope

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Life was “exceedingly rich” for Rachel Kuntzsch when it nearly slipped into darkness forever. She was happy, 44 and her Lansing consulting firm was thriving. Rachel was a strong, vibrant mom, friend, daughter and wife. Time spent with her college-sweetheart husband, David, and their two boys involved travel, sports, kayaks and long hikes on beautiful […]

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A group of Gift of Life staff, transplant recipients and legislators gathers around Governor Whitmer, who is seated at her desk and holding up the signed Check Your Heart Act

New law lets residents sign up through tax forms

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Michigan residents who haven’t yet added their names to the Michigan Organ Donor Registry will have a new and easy way to do so in 2024. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the Check Your Heart Act into law in July, making Michigan the first state in the country to enable residents to add their names to

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Newborn baby wrapped in orange towel with headband

Baby Jade Townsend saves the life of another infant

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Case results in protocol change with worldwide implications One of Gift of Life Michigan’s smallest donors – baby Jade Townsend, who lived for just 55 minutes in 2021 – saved the life of another infant this spring. But perhaps her most compelling and lasting legacy is an important protocol change. The tissue processor that accepted

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Artelia Griggs, donor mother, receiving an award from Christine Peiter, Gift of Life employee and tissue graft recipient

Gift of Life’s gala generates thousands for critical programs

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Popular signature event will grow in 2024 The annual Champions Gala honoring people and organizations across the state is thriving thanks to the generosity of sponsors supporting the annual event, which recognizes the best of the best in the donation and transplant community. The gala received $82,500 in support from a record 17 sponsors in

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Two teenage girls wearing "cornea glasses" that distort vision.

“All of Us” surges in popularity at schools across Michigan

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There’s a buzz in the air when Gift of Life Michigan educators arrive at a school with their red trunk of supplies and plasticized real human organs used to teach about donation and transplant. The All of Us education program is a real draw. “Everybody hears that we’re there,” said Alison Gillum, senior community relations

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101-year-old Katherine Steck holding a flower arrangement. Katherine donated tissues after her passing.

Think again if you believe you’re too old to be a donor

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One of the greatest myths related to organ and tissue donation is that there’s a strict age limit and that older people couldn’t possibly save the lives of others. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. In fact, more than 25% of organ donors in Michigan last year were 60 or older. Twenty of the

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Double lung transplant recipient Debora Dearring

Volunteer Spotlight: Gift of lungs motivates Debora Dearring to share her own spirit and compassion

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Debora Dearring lived at Henry Ford Hospital for nine months, seven of them waiting and praying for a double lung transplant that would save her life. The days and months were long and she was grateful for any little kindness. When the kitchen sent up her favorite not-on-the-menu fried eggs, she cried. Debora, 63, was

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A donor heart under ice in a sterile cooler

Heart study with Stanford University results in more transplants

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Gift of Life Michigan has worked for years to find new ways to increase the use of donor organs for transplantation. One five-year study, in particular, revealed such dramatic and significant findings that Michigan’s organ donation program changed its protocols almost immediately, and results followed. Gift of Life began collaborating with Stanford University in 2015

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Cindy Zarate in blue scrubs in the ICU

Staff Spotlight: Cindy Zarate takes care of donors in the days, hours and minutes before they give their final gifts

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Donation Coordinator Cindy Zarate squeezes a terry cloth towel soaked with warm, soapy water and slowly wipes it across the arms of a man whose life ended the day before. It’s her job to be there for him at Gift of Life Michigan’s Donor Care Center in Ann Arbor. The hospital-like center is home to

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Guests enjoyed free Dippin' Dots ice cream at Donate Life Night at the Zoo

Donate Life Night at the Zoo celebrates organ donors, transplant recipients and renewed life

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Gift of Life’s largest West Michigan outreach event returned this week to the popular John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids with a new twist. This year, more than one thousand Donate Life Night at the Zoo guests were treated to an exclusive after-hours event inside the zoo on August 16. The event’s top highlight was

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Tristan Johnson and his parents speaking at a podium

‘It happened to me’

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Transplant recipients tell their stories to 100 visitors at Gift of Life Michigan Community Open House Both Rachel Kuntzsch and Tristan Johnson were healthy and active when their doctors delivered unimaginable diagnoses of life-threatening illnesses. Both required immediate placement on the nation’s organ transplant waiting list, and both were on the receiving end of life-saving

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Terra DeFoe, donor mother, stands in front of a church stained glass window

شهر التوعية بمانحي الأقليات القومية

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August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month, designated to heighten awareness about organ and tissue donation in multicultural communities. Originally observed in a single week in 1996, this awareness month is a collaborative effort by the National Multicultural Action Group to save and improve lives by focusing on the African American, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander and

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A group of Gift of Life staff, transplant recipients and legislators gathers around Governor Whitmer, who is seated at her desk and holding up the signed Check Your Heart Act

Gov. Whitmer signs bill to add Organ Donor Registry question to state income tax forms in 2024

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Check Your Heart Act is the first of its kind in the nation. Groundbreaking legislation to bolster the Michigan Organ Donor Registry became law on Tuesday with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s signature on the Check Your Heart Act, clearing the way for residents to sign up as organ, eye and tissue donors on their state income

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