2004 Games Highlights - Recognition Awards

The 2004 recipient of the MTF Donor Card Award is the Life Alaska Donor Service, an organization that demonstrated a tremendous resource to all families who have been given the option of donation. The Life Alaska Donor Services is the tissue and organ donation organization serving the state of Alaska and offering the option of organ and tissue donation to families who have suffered a death in Alaska. Life Alaska is dedicated to increasing organ and tissue donation through professional transplant services, compassionate support of families, and community education. Since 1991, Life Alaska has had more than 2,000 donors and has supplied more than 4,800 tissues for transplantation to Alaskan patients. Through their efforts, organ and tissue donations have taken place across the state, from Barrow to Ketchikan.

Life Alaska is committed to Alaskan donor families while striving to meet the transplant needs for all Alaskans. They have a multi-year donor Family Services program that includes an annual remembrance service with family participation in creating donor quilts, a memory wall, and memory albums. The Family Services program is available to all families who have suffered a death and interacts with families through phone calls, personal contact and letters. Life Alaska looks forward to a future when donation is the standard and everyone is willing to be a hero to someone in need.

All photos, unless otherwise noted, courtesy of the National Kidney Foundation, Jay LaPrete, Mark Serota, Eric Miller and Jason Arnold.
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