PBRMC Honors National Donate Life Month
4/11/2025
POPLAR BLUFF, MO, April 9, 2025 – Each April, Donate Life America (DLA) leads National Donate Life Month (NDLM), an observance to focus national attention on the need and importance of organ, eye and tissue donation. National Donate Life Month is about the importance of registering your decision to be a donor and honoring deceased and living donors — recognizing that the generosity of donors makes saving lives through transplantation possible. A person is added to the waiting list every 8 minutes in the U.S.
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center is a proud partner of Mid-America Transplant, which is part of the DLA network. PBRMC has touched the lives of three thousand patients with the gift of life as an organ, eye, or tissue donor. In 2024 alone, of the 40 people who were referred for donation, there were four lifesaving organ transplants, and an additional 2,775 people’s lives were enhanced or saved with tissue and eye donation.
“National Donate Life Month is a powerful reminder of the difference each of us can make,” said Clyde Wood, CEO of Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. “We’re honored to stand with donor families, recipients, and our partners in transplantation to help educate and inspire our community about the lifesaving gift of donation.”
In Missouri, there are currently 2,000 people awaiting a transplant. And more than 115,000 people across the country are currently waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. Thousands more people are waiting for lifesaving and healing cornea and tissue transplants. Because only 3 in 1000 meet criteria for organ donation, it is vital for everyone to register their lifesaving decision to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor. Learning more about and considering living donation is a way you can help those waiting for a second chance at life.
To help participate in NDLM, April 11 is National Donate Life Blue & Green Day and PBRMC invites everyone to show their blue & green colors in support of the Donate Life message and mission. Join PBRMC for their Donate Life Month celebration at 2 p.m. at the Oak Grove Grill inside the hospital at 3100 Oak Grove Road. All are welcome to attend this event, which will include speakers from Mid-America Transplant and the hospital, as well as a special guest appearance from a local donor family.
Registration to be an organ, eye, and tissue donor can be done at www.SayYesGiveLife.org or in the Medical ID tab of your iPhone Health app.
*Data from the Donate Life America (DLA) Registry Overview Report, organdonor.gov, and Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) as of March 2025
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