www.onelegacy.org notification or donor referrals 24-hour line for routine 800-338-6112 Clinical Director Sherry Watson Clinical Director Jim Trisch of Communications Director Bryan Stewart of Family Services Director Fleming Jeff of Human Resources Director Anita Corliss and Quality Systems Services of Tissue Director Alan Cochran Hospital Services Director Carmichael Esther-Marie Chief Financial Officer Bobby Patton Chief Operating Officer Renee Hawthorne Chief Executive Officer Tom Mone Management Team The Bridge The community newsletter of OneLegacy, the non-profit organ and tissue recovery organization serving the greater Los Angeles area Fall 2006 DMV, Donate Life Return Service Requested Los Angeles, CA 90012 Los 221 Figueroa Street, Suite 500 South California Registry Team Up to Save Lives 2 DLA Announces ‘Donor Designation 5,000 DMV CUSTOMERS PER DAY Collaborative’ SIGNING UP TO DONATE LIFE 3 HHS Honors Area With 20,000 people in need of life-saving Hospitals transplants in California alone, DMV and Donate Life California have teamed up with a new chal- 4 Organ Donor Data lenge for the state’s drivers: sign up to become organ and tissue donors. One-third of the 93,000 4 Ambassadors of Americans cur- the Year rently waiting for life-saving organ 6-7 Photos: Donate Life transplants could Run/Walk and die due to a lack of Donor Ceremonies donors. But effec- tive July 1, Frankie Hernandez 8-9 Community Events Californians can help change that. BY ERICA RANGEL-B EZ 10 High School Anyone who Frankie was born on September 19, 1995. Program Surges checks Yes! He was my firstborn. Although he was prema- when applying for 14 Organ Donor or renewing a ture at 36 weeks, Frankie was ready for the world. He was speaking before he was walk- Referral Data driver license or I.D. card will be ing. He was potty trained and catching the ball listed on the state’s before he turned two years old. He was grow- registry as a ing tall and strong - just too fast for my eyes. donor, with the At the age of three Frankie played his first potential to save eight lives and enhance the lives baseball game, T-ball. He was a natural run- of up to 50 others. ning around the bases (the opposite way), Approximately 300,000 Californians had fighting for the ball in the outfield - knowing signed up online in the sixteen months since the the fundamentals of baseball but forgetting April 2005 launch of the registry website. In the them as soon as he stepped onto the field. eighteen weeks since the July 1 DMV partner- Those were very special moments. That, of ship, the influx of DMV signups has pushed the course, didn’t last too long. Shortly he became LOS ANGELES CA PERMIT #32574 U.S. POSTAGE U.S. Donate Life California Registry past the 800,000 NON-PROFIT more experienced and knowledgeable of the mark. Thanks to the DMV, approximately 5,000 sport and entered a new, more competitive PAID people per day are signing up with Donate Life level. That wowed me and so many. California an exponential increase compared Please see FRANKIE, Page 13 Please see DMV, Page 12 Donate Life America Launches ’Donor Designation January 1 to September 30, 2006 Collaborative‘ to Propel State Donor Registry Signups Organ Suitable Organ Organs Organ Suitable Organ Organs NATIONAL INITIATIVE SEEKS TO INCREASE DONOR DESIGNATIONS TO 100 MILLION BY APRIL 2008 Hospital Referrals Referrals Donors Tx’d Hospital Referrals Referrals Donors Tx’d Community Hospital of San Bernadino 9113 San Antonio Community Hospital 28 5 3 7 It is not just about the numbers - it is tion in states with effective donor reg- Corona Regional Medical Center 12 2 1 3 San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital 1000 about who and what the numbers repre- istries. Desert Regional Medical Center 51 14 8 27 St. Bernardine Medical Center 54 2 1 3 sent: lives hanging in the balance, and Desert Valley Hospital 10 0 0 0 St. Mary Regional Medical Center 13 1 1 2 This is an extraordinary opportunity people who bring them hope. With the Eisenhower Memorial Hospital 7113 Victor Valley Community Hospital 17 1 0 0 to save thousands more lives each year, Hemet Valley Medical Center 9312 number of people waiting for a life-saving said David Bosch, president of Donate Inland Valley Regional Medical Center 13 2 2 5 SANTA BARBARA & VENTURA COUNTIES organ transplant quickly approaching Jerry L. Pettis Memorial VA Med Ctr 1000 Community Memorial Hospital of San Buenaventura 13000 Life America and director of communica- 100,000, and the population of the United This effort, the Donor Designation John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital 6100 Los Robles Regional Medical Center 7114 tions and hospital development for Gift of Kaiser Permanente Fontana Med Ctr 75 12 6 14 Marian Medical Center 7100 States eclipsing the 300 million mark, Collaborative, promises to significantly Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, Kaiser Permanente Riverside Med Ctr 23 1 1 4 Ojai Valley Community Hospital 1000 Donate Life America, a national not-for- increase donor designations nationwide. Loma Linda University Medical Center 123 32 19 60 Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 30 9 5 18 the non-profit, federally designated organ profit organization dedicated to saving It is also an important step for those Menifee Valley Medical Center 3112 Santa Paula Memorial Hospital 1000 and tissue recovery agency serving lives by inspiring people to be organ, eye awaiting life-saving organ transplants or Moreno Valley Community Hospital 1000 Simi Valley Hospital and Health Care Services 7428 Illinois. We currently estimate that only Parkview Community Hospital Med Ctr 12 0 0 0 St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital 2000 and tissue donors, has launched a unified life-enhancing cornea or tissue trans- 20 percent of US residents have formally Rancho Springs Medical Center 5000 St. John's Regional Medical Center 18 3 1 6 national effort to increase the number of plants, with statistics showing significant Redlands Community Hospital 8000 Ventura County Medical Center 13 1 1 2 registered as organ donors in their state, Americans registered to be donors in their increases in organ, eye and tissue dona- Riverside Community Hospital 39 16 8 26 Riverside County Regional Med Center 80 18 16 45 TOTAL 2685 586 329 992 states to 100 million. Please see DESIGNATION, Page 10 and Community Events Coordinator. Bakersfield: Korneagay and Kathy Turner, Procurement Eleanor Leal, Per Diem PTC. Long Beach: Transplant Coordinators...Daren Herrick, Marina Crossroads Gustavo Gimenez, Per Diem Family Care Shukman, Ann Valladares and Brian Wannberg, OneLegacy Employees Serving Our National Community Coordinator...Annette Gonzalez, Hospital Per Diem Procurement Transplant Coordinators. Services Coordinator...Dean Decker and Ray Lin, MILESTONES Tenaya Wallace, Communications OneLegacy employees proudly serve alongside our colleagues nationwide in service of our professional community: Per Diem Surgical Recovery Coordinator... ON THE MOVE Jeff Fleming, promoted to Specialist, welcomed the birth of Xanathan Scott Richard Fogel, Keith Markillie and Larissa Director of Family Services…Becky Bryant has on June 13...Michelle Oxenham, Procurement Employee Role Committee Committee Chair/Co-Chairs Stefero, Procurement Transplant Coordinators... transitioned from Assistant Regional Director to Transplant Coordinator, Sherman Oaks, welcomed Erin Anderson, Dieula Dunn, Georgeann Clinical Quality Assurance Coordinator, Hedi Aguiar Member HRSA DCD Opportunities Group Jade Perdue, MA, HRSA the birth of Isabel Victoria on November 1. Bakersfield…Promoted from Hospital Services Garasic, Odin Ortega and Karleen Samartan, Eric Carr Member NATCO Hospital Development Committee Coordinator to Hospital Services Supervisor are Per Diem Procurement Transplant Coordinators Alan Cochran Chair AOPO Tissue Council Linda Martin, MATS; Kathy Geist, LifeSource Eric Carr (Sherman Oaks), Tasha Querantes WELCOME Los Angeles/Corporate: Stephanie ...Atiqullah Achackzad, Recovery Coordinator... (Long Beach) and Mike Thomas Anita Corliss Chair AOPO Human Resources Council Sharon Stover, TRC of Maryland , Clinical Education Specialist... Collazo Sandra Nader Achackzad, Barry Gray, Enayat (Redlands)…Carla Talley-Hentz, formerly Missy Forrest Member HRSA DCD Opportunities Group Jade Perdue, MA, HRSA Madera, Communications Assistant...Kari Hassanzai, Vidyaratne Ranasinghe, Jessica Hospital Services Coordinator, is now Hospital Sabrina Ho Co-Chair AOPO Multicultural Task Force Maria Sanders, New Mexico Donor Services Williams, Executive Assistant to the CEO...Anita Smalley and Liz Penaloza-Villalobos, Per Diem Services Collaborative Specialist...Dana Kathleen Hostert Team Leader ‘12 Weeks of Giving’ Workplace Campaign Shelly Morningstar, Akoya Jackson-Jones, Executive Assistant to the Recovery Tech I. Redlands: Mary Coronado, Per Castleberry moves from Procurement Wanda Jones Member HRSA DCD Opportunities Group Jade Perdue, MA, HRSA Transplant Coordinator to Hospital Services Clinical Directors...Felipe Martinez, Per Diem Diem Family Care Coordinator... Louis Jackson, Seung Lee Member HRSA DCD Opportunities Group Jade Perdue, MA, HRSA Liaison...Tenaya Wallace transitions to a project Family Care Coordinator...Esther-Marie Hospital Services Coordinator...Melissa Benson, Ramona Leinen-Duren Member NATCO Hospital Development Committee role as Communications Specialist...Simera Carmichael, Hospital Services Director...Johnny Glenn Matsuki Member HRSA DCD Opportunities Group Jade Perdue, MA, HRSA Rochelle Binnell and Jennifer Golightly, Nichols, formerly Community Events