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Kaweah Health partners with Donor Network West to increase the number of registered organ and tissue donors in Tulare County.donor network west

During the month of April, Donor Awareness Month, Kaweah Health provides education on the importance of having an advance directive. An advance directive is a document with special instructions, prepared in advance, that lets a person have a say about medical treatment in the event they get very sick and are unable to communicate.

One organ donor can save the lives of up to eight people and a tissue donor can heal more than 50 others. Donor Network West is the organ procurement organization that saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation in northern California and Nevada, Of the 22,600 people waiting for a life-saving transplant in California and Nevada, 10,600 or 47% wait in Donor Network West’s service area.

Anyone can register as a donor online at DonorNetworkWest.org or by visiting the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Remember: the best gift to give is the Gift of Life. Sign up today.

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