Jorge Gonzaga California Registry 20Th State to Adopt the Law
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www.onelegacy.org notification or donor referrals 24-hour line for routine 800-338-6112 Performance Improvement Assurance and Quality Director, Sherry Watson Services Recovery and Transplant Director, Jim Trisch Partnerships Research Director, Maria Stadtler Information Technology Director, Simmons Vicki Hospital Services Interim Director, Karen Libs Family Services Director, Fleming Jeff Governmental Affairs Governance and Director, Carmichael Esther-Marie of Communications President Vice Bryan Stewart of Human Resources President Vice Anita Corliss of Quality Systems President Vice Alan Cochran Operations of Tissue President Vice Chief Information Officer and Prasad Garimella of Finance President Vice Chief Financial Officer and Bobby Patton of Operations President Vice Chief Operating Officer and Renee Hawthorne President Executive Vice Chief Executive Officer and Mone Tom Management Team The Bridge The community newsletter of OneLegacy, the non-profit organ and tissue recovery organization serving the greater Los Angeles area Fall 2007 Gov. Schwarzenegger Return Service Requested Los Angeles, CA 90012 Los 221 Figueroa Street, Suite 500 South Signs Revised UAGA CALIFORNIA JOINS NATIONWIDE 2 Minorities’ Critical Role in Donation MOVEMENT TO BRING UNIFORMITY TO ORGAN DONATION LAWS 3 81 Southland Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Oct. 13 Hospitals Honored signed Assembly Bill 1689, also known as the 4 Organ Donor Data revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA), that is part of a nationwide movement to bring 5 El Puente uniformity to state organ donation laws. A bipar- tisan bill by Speaker Pro Tempore Sally Lieber 6 2007 Donate Life (D-Mountain View) and heart recipient and Run/Walk Recap Assemblyman Tom Berryhill (R-Modesto), California’s revised UAGA brings California 8-9 Community Events donation law up to contemporary medical, legal, 12 Donate Life and bioethical practices and makes California the Jorge Gonzaga California Registry 20th state to adopt the law. The law was last revised in 1987. Hits 2 Million Mark BY YOLANDA GONZAGA The revised UAGA helps make the best of 14 Hospital Donor & Jorge David Gonzaga passed away at the Referral Data every single donation opportunity by clarifying young age of 20. He was an amicable and legal ambiguities and family dynamics that can kind-spirited man with a jovial personality and cause delay or stand in the way of an individual a big heart. Jorge was always willing to lend a or family’s choice to donate, said Bryan Stewart, helping hand and easily made friends and was adored by all who met him. He had the great- president of Donate Life California, which est sense of humor and the biggest smile that administers the state-authorized organ and tissue always made you forget your worries. donor registry. We thank Assemblywoman Lieber and Assemblyman Berryhill for their lead- Jorge was a sports enthusiast and he had a ership in bringing California’s existing laws on great love for the outdoors and drawing. He loved playing baseball, basketball and of donation into one standardized, uniform piece of course, football. When Jorge was sixteen he legislation that is consistent with other states. met his mentor and science teacher, Dr. Like most other states, the Donate Life Ramsey who challenged him and a few of his classmates to run the Los Angeles Marathon. LOS ANGELES CA California Organ & Tissue Donor Registry is a PERMIT #32574 U.S. POSTAGE U.S. NON-PROFIT As expected, Jorge took on the challenge. For first-person consent registry that allows months he would rise at four in the morning to PAID Californians to make a legally binding decision to do his training. He successfully completed the be organ and tissue donors upon death, and does- marathon and his dedication, persistence and Please see XXX, Page 13 Please see UAGA, Page 12 January 1 to December 31, 2006 Minorities Play Critical Role in Donation and Transplantation Organ Elig Organ Organs Tissue Organ Elig Organ Organs Tissue PEOPLE OF COLOR ACCOUNT FOR ABOUT strates the fairness of organ allocation rules. Refer Refer Donors Tx’d Donors Refer Refer Donors Tx’d Donors TWO-THIRDS OF ORGAN DONORS AND Latinos represent nearly half of kidney transplant candidates, Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center 2 0 0 0 3 Moreno Valley Community Hospital 0 0 0 0 2 RECIPIENTS IN GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA and the proportion of African Americans waiting for kidneys is two- Orange County Coroner's Office 0 0 0 0 15 Palo Verde Community Hospital 0 0 0 0 1 and-a-half times their share of the general population. In addition, Placentia Linda Community Hospital 1 0 0 0 6 Parkview Community Hospital Med Ctr 7 0 0 0 5 New data released in July from OneLegacy and Donate Life Asians/Pacific Islanders represent 14% of kidney transplant candi- Saddleback Memorial Medical Center 18 1 0 0 6 Rancho Springs Medical Center 5 1 1 4 0 San Clemente Hospital 0 0 0 0 2 Redlands Community Hospital 4 0 0 0 5 dates, which is substantially greater than their share of the general California, the administrator of the statewide organ and tissue donor South Coast Medical Center 0 0 0 0 3 Riverside Community Hospital 34 10 7 20 11 registry, confirm the critical role that minorities play in the fabric of population. St. Joseph Hospital 16 4 2 2 8 Riverside County Coroner's Office 0 0 0 0 18 organ donation and transplantation in the Southland. Latinos St. Jude Medical Center 17 2 1 3 7 Riverside County Regional Med Center 67 13 8 15 9 More than two-thirds of the more than 20,000 Californians on account for almost half of the donors (47%) in the area, while peo- UCI Medical Center 101 20 12 40 7 San Antonio Community Hospital 42 7 4 14 13 the national organ transplant waiting list are Latino, African West Anaheim Medical Center 3 0 0 0 0 San Bernardino County Coroner's Office 0 0 0 0 11 ple of color account for about two-thirds of deceased organ donors American, or Asian/Pacific Islander. Western Medical Center Anaheim 11 2 1 3 2 San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital 3 1 1 2 3 and transplant recipients. Western Medical Center Santa Ana 63 15 11 48 13 St. Bernardine Medical Center 60 0 0 0 2 In the face of the critical need for organ donation, minorities are St. Mary Regional Medical Center 7 0 0 0 6 The Southland’s Latino, African American and Asian communi- RIVERSIDE & SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES Vencor Hospital - Ontario 4 0 0 0 0 three times less likely than Caucasians to sign up as donors with the ties benefit directly from the generosity of their own, with people of Arrowhead Regional Medical Center 95 23 18 54 7 Victor Valley Community Hospital 6 0 0 0 4 state donor registry, according to Donate Life California. Barstow Community Hospital 1 0 0 0 6 color accounting for almost 80% of kidney recipients. Kidneys rep- Fortunately, area consent rates among Latinos (66%), African Bear Valley Community Hospital 0 0 0 0 1 SANTA BARBARA & VENTURA COUNTIES resent the organ of greatest need across all ethnicities. Interestingly, Americans (46%) and Whites (72%) reached record levels in 2006, Chino Valley Medical Center 1 0 0 0 4 Commty Memorial Hosp of San Buenaventura 6 1 1 2 5 the percentage of multicultural kidney transplant recipients is virtu- Community Hospital of San Bernardino 7 1 0 0 4 Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital 1 0 0 0 1 and remain at similarly high levels in 2007. ally identical to the percentage on the waiting list, which demon- Corona Regional Medical Center 9 1 1 2 6 Lompoc District Hospital 0 0 0 0 2 Desert Regional Medical Center 63 11 5 15 12 Marian Medical Center 11 3 3 8 3 Please see MINORITIES, Page 13 Desert Valley Hospital 4 1 0 0 10 Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 18 4 2 6 13 Eisenhower Memorial Hospital 21 7 4 9 5 Santa Paula Memorial Hospital 2 1 0 0 0 Transplant Coordinator. Redlands: Gregory Wheeler, Procurement Transplant Coordinator. Hemet Valley Medical Center 12 1 0 0 19 Los Robles Regional Medical Center 16 5 5 12 7 Allen, Recovery Technician I…Aaron Cohen, Redlands: Manvir Behniwal, Assistant Donor Hi-Desert Medical Center 0 0 0 0 3 Ojai Valley Community Hospital 0 0 0 0 1 Inland Valley Regional Medical Center 19 2 0 0 7 Simi Valley Hospital and Health Care Services 12 5 4 13 6 Crossroads Manager of Recovery & Technical Information Coordinator...Scott Bunting, Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center 1 0 0 0 2 St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital 3 1 0 0 0 Services…Kari Monahan, Procurement Procurement Transplant Coordinator...Dana John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital 8 0 0 0 1 St. John's Regional Medical Center 35 9 4 14 8 Transplant Coordinator. Santa Ana: Mildred Castleberry, In-House Coordinator...Mary Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center 74 15 10 20 4 Ventura County Medical Center 14 3 1 3 1 MILESTONES Shannon White and Tony Chavez Reid, Recovery Technician I…Lisa Rubalcava, Coronado, Full-Time Family Care Kaiser Permanente Riverside Med Ctr 18 0 0 0 7 Ventura County Medical Examiner 0 0 0 0 1 welcomed daughter Olivia Rose Chavez on Loma Linda University Medical Center 134 35 23 66 17 Tissue Recovery Technician I. Sherman Oaks: Coordinator...Jenna Graciano, Quality Systems October 22…Laura Haddad delivered daughter Menifee Valley Medical Center 2 0 0 0 2 TOTAL 2705 505 300 927 772 Sandra Bolleurs, Hospital Services Training Specialist...Ray Lin, Surgical Recovery Katia on November 19...Angela Mascarenhas Coordinator…Daynine Bryant, Administrative Coordinator...Juan Ramirez, Per Diem gave birth to son Aidan on November 20.