Organ donation saves hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Hear from six year-old heart recipient Gabriel Vallejos, and his mother Lisa, on why they run the Donor Dash, a 5K run/walk to honor the lives of organ and tissue donors, celebrate the lives of recipients and recognize those who continue to wait for a lifesaving transplant.
More than 2,000 people in Colorado and Wyoming are in need of lifesaving organ donations. On Sunday, the Donor Dash highlighted the need, and the payoff, of organ donations.
Thousands of people will gather this Sunday in Washington Park for the annual “Donor Dash.” Among them will be Scott Pinkney, a man from Northglenn who is nearly 2 years out from a liver transplant.
A donation awareness walk hosted by Wyoming Medical Center on April 27 was a success.
Donor Alliance shares information on organ, tissue donation at St. Thomas More Hospital.
Read more about the event at St. Thomas More Hospital and the lives of locals touched by donation.
Jennifer Sheriff made the decision to donate her baby’s organs when doctors told her the baby had no brain activity. Sheriff said the decision to allow her daughter to help others helped give her daughter’s short life a purpose.
Hear from Donor Alliance Advocate and donor mom Robin Mitchell on what donation means to her family.
April marks National Donate Life Month – a time to focus on the lifesaving potential of organ, eye and tissue donations. Tissue transplant recipient Joseph Gutierrez from Littleton spoke to 9NEWS about why transplants are so important.
Hear Cassandra Perkins talk donation with donor mom Babette Canacari, kidney recipient Anne Mukhar and Donor Alliance representative Andrea Smith.
April, which is National Donate Life Month, has special meaning to one Colorado woman who is hoping that one day her life will be saved and healed by a generous stranger.
