Melissa Peck hospital services manager for the NJ Sharing Network presents the HRSA’s Gold Level award to RWJ Hamilton President & CEO Richard Freeman, honoring the hospital’s efforts to increase enrollment in New Jersey’s donor registry and promote awareness of organ and tissue donation.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJ) Hamilton Gold Level recognition for its efforts to increase enrollment in the New Jersey state donor registry and spread the life-saving message of organ and tissue donation.
HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Workplace Partnership for Life Hospital Campaign mobilizes the nation’s hospitals to increase the number of people who are registered organ and tissue donors. Advocates at RWJ Hamilton worked with NJ Sharing Network and Donate Life New Jersey to create outreach and registry campaigns to educate staff, patients and the community.
To date in 2015, approximately 402 people have benefited from tissue donations that came from RWJ Hamilton patients. RWJ Hamilton joins the 45 hospitals in the NJ Sharing Network service area recognized by HRSA as part of its workplace recognition campaign, which has resulted in 350,000 donor registrations from August 2014 to April 2015.
Image: (l to r) Melissa Peck, hospital services manager for the NJ Sharing Network, presents the HRSA’s Gold Level award to RWJ Hamilton President & CEO Richard Freeman, honoring the hospital’s efforts to increase enrollment in New Jersey’s donor registry and promote awareness of organ and tissue donation.”
