Officials from St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison will pick up a very special award at the end of the week at the National Collaborative meeting in Nashville, Tenn.
All of the hospital’s patients who are eligible to become organ donors signed up this year for the donor program, and the hospital will receive a medal of honor Friday for its effort.
St. Mary’s is part of the University of Wisconsin Health Organ Procurement Organization and the average sign-up rate in the UW service area is 87 percent for organ donations, while the national average is just 70.7 percent.
Quoted: Dr. Tony D’Allesandro, medical director of the UW Health OPO