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Windsor Regional Hospital has been recognized by Ontario Health’s Trillium Gift of Life Network for its outstanding efforts to integrate organ and tissue donation into quality end-of-life care over the past year.
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During a special awards broadcast held Tuesday, the hospital received a Provincial Conversion Rate Award for meeting or exceeding the target conversion rate of 63 percent set by Ontario Health.
The conversion rate is the percentage of potential organ donors (patients who die in a hospital and are deemed medically fit for donation) who became actual donors. This was the fifth year that the local hospital has received this award.
Additionally, Windsor Regional is also one of nine Ontario hospitals to have received the Award of Excellence for meeting or exceeding the provincial conversion rate target in four or more consecutive years.
“There is an incredible amount of teamwork involved in making organ and tissue donation a part of end-of-life care for all patients,” said Dr. Natalie Malus, Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit. from the hospital, who accepted the awards.
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“This recognizes all the work behind the scenes and the ongoing commitment of our multidisciplinary team towards implementing leading practices in donation to provide patients with the best possible end-of-life care.”
Nurse Jean Meloche from the Intensive Care Unit also received the Hospital Donation Champion Award, which is given to healthcare professionals who are exceptional advocates for organ and tissue donation.
“I would like to thank our brave families and patients for allowing us to be with them during their donation trips,” said Meloche. “A great recognition and thanks to the entire team at the UCI and know that each member of our team plays a very important role in the organ donation process.”
Each resident has the opportunity to demonstrate their support for the program by registering their consent to donate organs and tissues at beadonor.ca .
Reference-windsorstar.com