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Being involved with a loved one’s decision to donate life and receiving the gift of hope through transplantation are life-changing experiences.
Through our Donor Family Services staff, we provide ongoing information to families about their loved ones’ organ and tissue donations, and offer support through remembrance ceremonies and other programs. We also faciliate communication between families of donors and the recipients of their loved ones’ gifts who choose to correspond with one another.
During the first 18 months after a family’s loss, we provide a series of communications to donor families. One of the most important letters will come to families about six weeks after the donation—a letter that provides general information about the recipients and how they are doing. For families of tissue donors, we provide information on the process that takes place from the time of donation to the time that donated tissues are provided for transplant.
We also work closely with our Donor Family Advisory Council, made up of family members of organ and tissue donors from throughout Illinois and northwest Indiana who meet quarterly to advise us on our services to families.
At any time we can help, please contact our Donor Family Services staff at 630/758-2717. To contact Diane Schmitz, Donor Family Services Coordinator,
e-mail her at dschmitz@giftofhope.org.
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