April is National Donate Life Month

Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center and Atrium Health Navicent Peach have earned recognition for efforts to increase organ, eye and tissue donor registrations across Georgia through the DoNation Campaign. DoNation highlights the importance in the lifesaving and life-giving mission of organ and tissue donation and transplantation.


The health systems, in partnership with LifeLink® of Georgia, the local organ and tissue recovery program, and Donate Life Georgia, the state’s organ and tissue donor registry, earned Platinum level recognition for conducting organ donation education and donor registration activities between Oct. 1, 2023, and Sept. 30, 2024.


During this campaign cycle, Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center and Atrium Health Navicent Peach were two of 88 participating hospital partners within the LifeLink service area. Through flag raisings, ceremonial honor walks, donor registration tabling events, social media, Donate Life spirt week activities, community events, media and more, new donor registrations were added to the Donate Life Georgia state donor registry.


“Becoming a registered organ donor is a simple step that may one day save someone’s life,” said Atrium Health Navicent Chief Medical Officer Dr. Patrice Walker. “Nationally, over 103,000 individuals are waiting for a lifesaving transplant and more than 3,000 of those individuals live in Georgia. Almost anyone can become an organ and tissue donor. If you’ve not taken this step, we encourage you to do so.”


Every day in the United States 17 people die because an organ was not available in time to save their lives, and every 9 minutes, another person is added to the national organ transplant waiting list. This ongoing need reaffirms the critical and growing need for more registered organ, eye and tissue donors.


National Donate Life Month is observed each April to raise awareness about the importance of organ, eye, and tissue donation.

Anyone, regardless of their age or health, can make the decision to become a registered organ and tissue donor when obtaining a driver license through the Department of Driver Services, when purchasing a hunting or fishing license online through the Department of Natural Resources, or online by going to www.DonateLifeGeorgia.org.


For more information about the DoNation Campaign, visit www.organdonor.gov/professionals/workplace.