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award-winning care flight for life colorado earns award The Denver Business Journal has awarded Flight For Life Colorado one of its “CHAMPIONS in Health Care” awards for 2008. This marked the third year the newspaper recognized organizations, individuals and services having a positive impact on community health. Nominees were judged on innovation, entrepreneurship, professional accomplishment and community leadership. Established in 1972, Flight For Life is the first civilian airborne emergency medical service in the nation and has been in continuous service since its inception. Four helicopters are stationed at bases in Denver, Frisco, Pueblo and Colorado Springs. There are two additional bases at Centennial Airport and The Children’s Hospital. Flight For Life serves approximately 200 communities in nine states. Having logged more than 85,000 missions, it is nationally regarded as the leader in delivering excellence in critical care transport. fact:“ With an average wait of three years for a kidney and up to two for a heart, it is only through the selfless gift of donation that people are given a second chance at life. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), nearly 100,000 Americans currently await a lifesaving organ transplant with 17 people dying each day due to the shortage of donated organs.” Source: donoralliance.org hospital awarded “medal of honor” for donation efforts For the third consecutive year, the Department of Health and Human Resources Services Administration has awarded St. Anthony Central Hospital its “Medal of Honor” for helping secure organ and tissue donations. According to clinical nurse manager Cindy Elger, BSN, MBA, CCRN, the award recognizes the hospital’s achieving a 75 percent donor rate over a 12-month period. She credits the sensitivity of St. Anthony Central’s Donor Awareness Team—a multidisciplinary group representing the Intensive Care Units, Emergency Department, Surgery, Respiratory Therapy and Pastoral Care—for assuring donation requests are honored. The Donor Alliance for Colorado and Wyoming reminds those considering donation that a single organ and tissue donor can save the lives of more than 100 people. At present, some 100,000 Americans are waiting for an organ donation. Join the 60 million Americans who have made the decision to become an organ and/or tissue donor. To learn more, visit donoralliance.org. vim & vigor • s p ri ng 2009 55 http://www.donoralliance.org http://www.donoralliance.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Vim & Vigor - Spring 2009

Vim & Vigor
Contents
CEO Letter
For Your health
The 2.5-Centimeter Surgery
Cracking the Case
Domino Effect
No More Excuses
A Grand Plan
Home, Clean Home
RX for Success
Your Lovely Bones (and Joints)
Freeze, Food!
Employment Assistance
When Memory Fails
Community Connections
EMS Training
Pallitive Care
Award-Winning Care
Ask the Experts

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