Workplace Partnership for Life Hospital Campaign
Portland VA Medical CenterPortland, Oregon
Megan Crutchfield, MPHRoderick Carew, MBA, CEBTDarren Malinoski, MD, FACS
•Joined campaign in October 2012
•Donation Agency Partners▫Donate Life Northwest▫Lions VisionGift ▫Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank (PNTB)
•Support from hospital leadership▫Informational packet & presentation
Megan Crutchfield, MPH, Portland VA Medical Center
• Successes▫Registered 75 new donors
▫Dedicated 42 roses to donor families
▫Created three quilt squares featured on Donate Life Northwest’s Threads of Life quilt
▫First hospital in the nation to achieve gold level status in the WPFL Hospital Campaign
▫Increased awareness about the importance of organ, eye and tissue donation within our medical center and surrounding community
•Event – November 2012▫Three-day donor registration drive ▫Rose dedication event▫Threads of Life quilt making event
•Thanksgiving Week Donor Registration Drive▫Registered 75 new donors▫Raised awareness about the importance of
donation
Donate Life EventMain Hospital Lobby
Come by to learn more about organ, tissue, and eye donation
and help us honor those veterans who have donated in the past!
November 19th and 20th: 8am – 4pmNovember 21st: 8am – 2pm
•Rose Dedication▫42 roses dedicated to donors by their
families
•Threads of Life quilting event▫Three quilt squares created honoring
donors
•National Donate Life Month -- April 2013▫Four-day donor registration drive▫Blue and Green Day Employee Celebration▫Medal Ceremony
•Inter-Agency Cooperation▫An United Front is Important
Cooperation between development personnel
▫Create Formal Taskforces Cementing the association between hospital
development staff at each agency
▫Find Champions in Hospitals: People with a vested interest already Donor Task Forces, Transplant Departments,
Publications
Roderick Carew, Lions VisionGift
•Collaboration with donation partners
•Support and Leadership
▫What worked at our facility
▫The importance of top-down support
▫Plans for moving forward
Darren Malinoski, MD, FACS, Portland VA Medical Center