The giving continues: More than 60 percent of Michigan adults are now registered organ donors

Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Friday that the number of Michigan adults registered as organ, tissue and eye donors has topped 60 percent. Johnson recently joined Gift of Life Michigan’s CEO Dorrie Dils to film a message for SOS staff, thanking them for their hard work reaching this goal on the Michigan Organ Donor

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Gift of Life launches six-week Hospital Challenge to help grow the Michigan Organ Donor Registry

ANN ARBOR, MI— Hospitals across the state are accepting a challenge by Gift of Life Michigan to see who can add the most names to the Organ Donor Registry this fall. The competition kicks off on Oct. 2, and it will wrap up at midnight on Nov. 10. The winners (first, second and third places)

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St. John Transplant, DMC and University of Michigan top statewide competition to register new organ, eye and tissue donors

ANN ARBOR, MI— A lot has happened to save lives at Michigan’s transplant centers over the past year, and not all of it took place inside their operating rooms. Seven healthcare systems representing the state’s nine centers competed in the Gift of Life Transplant Center Challenge since April 2016 to see who could inspire the

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Wayne State and WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine top statewide competition

ANN ARBOR, MI— Thanks to friendly rivalries of students at 14 Michigan colleges and universities, more than 1,600 Michigan residents signed up on the Michigan Organ Donor Registry in the past five weeks. The 14th annual Gift of Life Michigan Campus Challenge had students competing to sign up the most people as organ, tissue and

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College rivals to save and heal lives competing in 14th annual Gift of Life Campus Challenge

ANN ARBOR, MI— Students at 14 Michigan colleges and universities are participating in a life-saving competition. However, they most likely will never know the people whose lives they are saving. The schools are participating in the Gift of Life Michigan Campus Challenge, an organ and tissue donor drive competition. Each campus will sign up people

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Gift of Life Michigan sets tissue donor record, saves and improves thousands of lives in 2016

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Gift of Life Michigan helped make it possible for a record number of people to donate tissue in 2016, giving thousands of recipients the gifts of mobility, healing, pain relief and the ability to resume active lifestyles with the people they love. That was just one important accomplishment last year for

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Dignity Memorial Providers of Detroit to honor local paramedic at prestigious 128th Rose Parade

DETROIT, MI – Dignity Memorial Providers of Detroit will honor local paramedic Gary Terreault of Flat Rock at the 128th Rose Parade Jan. 2 in Pasadena, California. Family members and volunteers will pay a special tribute to Terreault, who passed away two years ago at the age of 61, by decorating a “floragraph”— a portrait

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Michigan donor mom will ride on Donate Life Rose Parade float; Gift of Life, Promethera helped family donate newborn’s cells for research

ANN ARBOR, MI— Promethera Biosciences LLC is joining Gift of Life Michigan to become an important part of the 2017 Donate Life Rose Parade float, Teammates in Life, on January 2, 2017, in Pasadena, California. Promethera, a regenerative medicine company targeting liver diseases, is sponsoring a Michigan woman, Sandi Gerwin, to ride on the float,

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Dayja Foster

Kidney recipient Dayja Foster was diagnosed with kidney failure when she was just 16. Dialysis kept her going, but robbed Dayja of her time as a teenager. Last year, a generous donor saved her life and she received a new kidney at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. That gift allowed her to go to her senior

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Gift of Life begins recovering organs and tissue at new Ann Arbor surgical center

ANN ARBOR, MI – A new era of organ and tissue donation has begun in the state with the first organ and tissue recoveries at Gift of Life Michigan’s state-of-the-art surgical center. The $14.3-million expansion at Gift of Life’s Ann Arbor headquarters now houses an intensive care unit and operating rooms allowing Gift of Life,

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Gift of Life and Eversight Michigan honor funeral service educator for organ, eye and tissue donation advocacy work

DETROIT – Sharon L. Gee-Mascarello of St. Clair Shores is the first recipient of the Gift of Life Michigan Eversight Michigan Donation Champion Award for professionals in the funeral service industry. The award was presented at an honors reception April 21 during the Michigan Funeral Directors Association Convention in Detroit. Gee-Mascarello – a funeral director,

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