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Workplace Partnership for Life Hospital Campaign. Portland VA Medical Center Portland, Oregon. Megan Crutchfield, MPH Roderick Carew, MBA, CEBT Darren Malinoski, MD, FACS. Joined campaign in October 2012 Donation Agency Partners Donate Life Northwest Lions VisionGift
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Workplace Partnership for Life Hospital Campaign Portland VA Medical Center Portland, Oregon Megan Crutchfield, MPH Roderick Carew, MBA, CEBT Darren Malinoski, MD, FACS
Joined campaign in October 2012 • Donation Agency Partners • Donate Life Northwest • Lions VisionGift • Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank (PNTB) • Support from hospital leadership • Informational packet & presentation Megan Crutchfield, MPH, Portland VA Medical Center
Successes • Registered 75 new donors • Dedicated 42 roses to donor families • Created three quilt squares featured on Donate Life Northwest’s Threads of Life quilt • First hospital in the nation to achieve gold level status in the WPFL Hospital Campaign • Increased awareness about the importance of organ, eye and tissue donation within our medical center and surrounding community
Event – November 2012 • Three-day donor registration drive • Rose dedication event • Threads of Life quilt making event
Thanksgiving Week Donor Registration Drive • Registered 75 new donors • Raised awareness about the importance of donation
Rose Dedication • 42 roses dedicated to donors by their families
Threads of Life quilting event • Three quilt squares created honoring donors
National Donate Life Month -- April 2013 • Four-day donor registration drive • Blue and Green Day Employee Celebration • Medal Ceremony
Inter-Agency Cooperation • An United Front is Important • Cooperation between development personnel • Create Formal Taskforces • Cementing the association between hospital development staff at each agency • Find Champions in Hospitals: People with a vested interest already • Donor Task Forces, Transplant Departments, Publications Roderick Carew, Lions VisionGift
Support and Leadership • What worked at our facility • The importance of top-down support • Plans for moving forward Darren Malinoski, MD, FACS, Portland VA Medical Center