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Sen. William Haine (D-Alton) was honored today with a Gift of Life Award by Mid-America Transplant Services for his legislation to improve the organ and tissue transplant process in Metro East.

Pope Francis’s visit to the United States has generated tremendous excitement and the momentum continues to build in anticipation of the arrival of His Holiness. From every corner of the country, Catholics and people of all faiths rejoice and are inspired by Pope Francis’s visit and his support for organ, eye and tissue donation.

Cultivating new opportunities to remember.

The Mid-America Transplant charitable foundation recently awarded six one-time grants of $10,000 to nonprofit organizations in St. Louis or Springfield, MO for projects aimed at increasing healthy food distributed to food pantries. 

The Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation (AMAT) and Donate Life America (DLA) are joining forces to launch “Donate Life ECHO,” a new national observance designed to reach multicultural communities. 

Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS), the regional organ procurement organization dedicated to saving lives in our community, is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a Top Workplaces 2015 by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

MTS President and CEO Dean F. Kappel was the lead author with nine transplant experts on a letter to the editor published in the American Journal of Transplantation this month. 

The national transplant allocation system developed by United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) has coordinated 500,000 organ transplants from deceased donors in the United States since its beginning in October 1987.

Located in St. Louis or Springfield, MO, these organizations presented compelling programs and share our commitment to saving and improving lives.