Workplace Partnership for Life Hospital Campaign

Portland VA Medical Center Portland, Oregon

Megan Crutchfield, MPH Roderick Carew, MBA, CEBT Darren Malinoski, MD, FACS

• Joined campaign in October 2012 • Donation Agency Partners ▫ Donate Life Northwest ▫ Lions VisionGift ▫ Pacific Northwest Transplant Bank (PNTB) • Support from hospital leadership ▫ Informational packet & presentation Megan Crutchfield, MPH, Portland VA Medical Center

• Successes ▫ Registered 75 new donors ▫ Dedicated 42 roses to donor families ▫ Created three quilt squares featured on Donate Life Northwest’s Threads of Life quilt ▫ First hospital in the nation to achieve gold level status in the WPFL Hospital Campaign ▫ Increased awareness about the importance of organ, eye and tissue donation within our medical center and surrounding community

• Event – November 2012 ▫ Three-day donor registration drive ▫ Rose dedication event ▫ Threads of Life quilt making event

• Thanksgiving Week Donor Registration Drive ▫ Registered 75 new donors ▫ Raised awareness about the importance of donation

Donate Life Event Main Hospital Lobby Come by to learn more about organ, tissue, and eye donation and help us honor those veterans who have donated in the past!

November 19 th and 20 th : 8am – 4pm November 21 st : 8am – 2pm

• Rose Dedication ▫ 42 roses dedicated to donors by their families

• Threads of Life quilting event ▫ Three quilt squares created honoring donors

• National Donate Life Month -- April 2013 ▫ Four-day donor registration drive ▫ Blue and Green Day Employee Celebration ▫ Medal Ceremony

• Inter-Agency Cooperation ▫ An United Front is Important  Cooperation between development personnel ▫ Create Formal Taskforces  Cementing the association between hospital development staff at each agency ▫ Find Champions in Hospitals: People with a vested interest already  Donor Task Forces, Transplant Departments, Publications Roderick Carew, Lions VisionGift

• Collaboration with donation partners

• Support and Leadership ▫ What worked at our facility ▫ The importance of top-down support ▫ Plans for moving forward Darren Malinoski, MD, FACS, Portland VA Medical Center