MONTGOMERY CO., Va. – While the call to care for others is seemingly innate in many medical professionals, a local nurse at LewisGale Montgomery Hospital is willing to give the ultimate gift, an organ donation from her own body, when one of her co-workers became a patient.
Organ donation is not only an end-of-life decision. A donor can live a full and healthy life after donation. Research from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services shows recipients of organs from living donors have better outcomes than those who receive organs from deceased donors.
In the United States, more than 100,000 men, women and children are on the national transplant waiting list…