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The Gift of Life: Hospice Patients as Donors

Donate Life Northwest Partners

Oregon Donor Registry

• Over 2.2 million people have registered

• 74% of the population are registered

• ~52,000 new registrants added each year

The Voice of 2.2 Million Future Lifesavers

Responsibility to registrants:Facilitate informed decision-making

educatedispel myths

Ensure wishes to donate are honored

Aid in the grieving process for loved ones

“It’s not just the transplant recipient that gets something good. We get something too.”-- Donor Mom

Oregon Donor Registry – by age

16-28

29-47

48-66

67+

- 200,000 400,000 600,000 800,000 1,000,000

Registered Donors

Registered Donors

48+47%16-47

53%

Donation in the Hospice Setting

The Hospice philosophy brings great comfort to many families…We’ve found that families also embrace the donation

experience as a source of solace.

• Donation Specialists have undertaken eight weeks of training in order to provide a balance of opportunity and compassion to families

• Correspondence between recipients and donor families

• Follow-up letters at 1 month, 2 months, and 1 year anniversaries

• Memorial opportunities

Donor FamiliesCommitment to donors and their families doesn’t end with the donation

Memorial Opportunities

• Threads of Life Donor Quilts• Donor Recognition Events• Trees of Remembrance• Remembrance cards

Memorial expressions are one way for families to honor the legacy of their loved one’s gift

Transplant Recipients

The ‘Gift of Sight’ is known as a ‘life-enhancing’ transplant,but recipients would tell you it is nothing short of ‘life-

saving’.

More than 45,000 cornea transplants in theUnited States each year, with a 95% success rate

In 2013, people benefited from 56,704 donated tissues recovered from Oregon donors

Transplant Recipients

Honor Rate

Goal Ensure that 100% of registered donors

who wish to donate and are eligible to donate

are able to donate

Honor Rate

What does success look like?

Average deaths in hospice each year: 10,500(From Oregon Hospice Association Summary Reports 2004-2010)

Estimated # with a donor designation: 7,770(based on 74% donor designation share in Oregon)

Estimated # eligible to donate each year: 3,885(historically approximately 50% of hospice patients meet donation eligibility guidelines to donate corneas and tissues)

Maximum Honor Rate for Hospice = ~3,885/ year

Implementation Options

There are several models we could follow for starting a referral policy

• Information in Admit Packet• Imminent Expiration Referrals• Referral at Expiration

Lions VisionGift follows different protocols to meet the needs of each hospice partner

Lions VisionGift is the referral organization for all eye and tissue referrals

Potential Referral Flow• Patient expires and your staff calls referral line

• LVG staff will call back to assess donor potential

• Only if eligible, will we approach the family(LVG asks you to get contact information for the decision maker)

• If the family chooses donation, LVG needs to coordinate with the funeral home the family is choosing

Hear From Your Peers

Here are a few of the hospice programs we’ve been working with for many years now…

Legacy Hopewell HouseWillamette Valley Hospice

Providence Portland Hospice

Check with your peers to hear how easy it can be to offer this option to all of your families

Discussion

• Questions• Next Steps

Contact Us!

Stephen Rice Program DirectorDonate Life Northwestricst@ohsu.edu503-494-2257

Rodrick Carew Partner Relations ManagerLions VisionGiftRoderick@visiongift.org503-808-7028