Mid-America Transplant's Manager of Donor Services Sarah Berger, right, cuts the ribbon with Donor Services team members to officially open their new work space. Donor Services is Mid-America Transplant 24/7/365 call center.
Mid-America Transplant unveiled its new Eye Bank, call center, and clinical office space on Wednesday with a ribbon cutting. The new work spaces are designed to improve the overall function in the organization's pursuit to make organs and tissues available to all in need.
“This is an exciting day,” said Diane Brockmeier, CEO and President of Mid-America Transplant. “It’s a beautiful space. More importantly, we’re confident this will continue to help us fulfill our mission to save lives through organ and tissue donation.”
Donor Services is Mid-America Transplant’s 24/7 call center, open 365 days per year. It fields 135,000 calls annually to identify potential donors and offer the gift of tissue donation to thousands of families.
Mid-America Transplant’s Eye Bank processes corneas for vision-saving transplants. In 2018, more than 1,100 corneas were made available for transplant.
The tissue recovery teams at Mid-America Transplant facilitated tissue donation with nearly 2,000 donors in 2018. The gifts of heart valves, skin, bone, veins and nerves from donors last year could help more than 99,000 people.
Ocular coordinator Savannaha Wiley, left, and lead ocular coordinator Kristene Clark officially open the new Mid-America Transplant Eye Bank.
Tissue Team Lead Sara Ham officially opens the new work space for the teams who recovery lifesaving tissue gifts.