Ceremony to honor organ and tissue donors

April is National Donate Life Month, and Atrium Medical Center in conjunction with LifeCenter Organ Donor Network will host Wednesday, April 19, 2017, a Donate Life flag raising ceremony open to the public in honor of those who have given or received a life-saving organ or tissue donation.
 
The ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, starting in the main lobby and then moving outside of the Middletown hospital’s main entrance. Then, visitors can stop by the LifeCenter display near Atrium Café from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to learn more about organ donation.
 
For more information, contact LifeCenter Organ Donor Network at 513-558-5555.
 
Atrium Medical Center is located at One Medical Center Drive in Middletown.
 
Locally, more than 600 people are on the waiting list for an organ transplant and nationally, more than 119,000 people are on the waiting list. An average 22 people die every day waiting for a transplant in the U.S., according to LifeCenter and Donate Life America.
 
Atrium Medical Center is a full-service hospital and Level III Trauma Center located conveniently along the Interstate 75 corridor at exit 32, One Medical Center Drive in Middletown, between Cincinnati and Dayton. The hospital employs more than 1,500 people in full-time, part-time and on-call positions. Atrium is operated by the Dayton-based nonprofit Premier Health system.
 
LifeCenter’s mission is to save, enhance and change lives through organ and tissue donation. LifeCenter is a nonprofit organ procurement organization that facilitates organ and tissue donation and serves 16 counties in Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana. For more information, visit www.lifepassiton.org.