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 GoodHearts News Release

Check in for Charity - Mayfield Inn & Suites donates portion of holiday bookings to GoodHearts

November 15, 2010

In the spirit of giving, Mayfield Inn & Suites is supporting the Edmonton organ transplant community by donating a portion of its Christmas period guest room sales to the GoodHearts Mentoring Foundation Transplant Housing Project.

The donation is part of the Mayfield’s Friends in Need program, an annual
initiative held at all 20 Canadian facilities managed by SilverBirch Hotels & Resorts.
Under the program the hotel offers low holiday rates and donates $10 from each
booking from Dec. 21 to Dec. 28. Read more...

 

 

Recipients Fit To Drive — but you got to ask

The Alberta Transportation Driver Fitness and Monitoring Branch has clarified its handling of the driver's licence renewal process for transplant recipients.

The change applies only to the Class 5 licence, and is still done on a case-by-case basis, therefore a letter of support from is transplant doctor is required. Read more...

 

 

Kidney Foundation recognizes GoodHearts

Award presented Nov 17, 2009

Each year the Northern Alberta and Territories Branch of the Kidney Foundation recognizes volunteers who have been outstanding in their work for the Foundation. This year GoodHearts has been awarded the “Wally Bucis Memorial Award”.  This award is presented to a group in recognition of their support and services provided to the local branch. We are honoured to work with you on shared goals and value your support at our many events.

 

 

Organ donors gather for candlelight service

October 18, 2009
By Clara Ho, Sun Media

Brooke Kolodychuk’s world came crashing down nine years ago when she and her family made the difficult decision of taking son Sean off life support after he suffered a massive brain injury. Read more … (Online Article)

 

 

Heartfelt Appeal

Few Canadians donate tissue and organs for transplant, a city man
wants to change that

October 9, 2009
By Andrew Hanon, Sun Media

Silvio Dobri is one of the lucky ones.

When he needed an emergency heart transplant in 1998, a heart was available.

That wasn't the case for 51 Albertans who died last year while waiting for matching donors. In all, there were 621 people on the University of Alberta Hospital's transplant wait list in 2008. Read more … (Online Article)

 

 

 GoodHearts News Release

Gratitude shown for the Gift of Life

Show for HOPE
April 28, 2007

Organ and tissue donation may seem like a random act of kindness.

Yet the momentous decision to save another person's life as the donor is dying is a gift that overwhelms the recipient and his family. Their gratitude is such that they're left speechless, even though the telling of the medical miracle wows the listener and reader alike.

“To me, the cause of organ and tissue donation is far more important than my story,” Suresh Avasthi says two years after he had a liver transplant at the University of Alberta Hospital. Read more (Adobe PDF)

 

 

Service held to mark transplant week

Sunday, April 22, 2007
By David Finlayson, The Edmonton Journal

EDMONTON - Gwen Angulalik’s son was 17 when he lost his footing and fell into an icy northern river last August. Stephen died in hospital five days later, but his mother made sure his organs were made available to help others. Read more … (Online Article)

 

 

 GoodHearts News Release

Candlelight Service
Celebrates National Organ & Tissue Donor Awareness Week

April 22, 2007

Edmontonians will mark the 10th anniversary of the National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week with a candlelight service to honour and remember donors, donor families, organ and tissue recipients, their caregivers and the medical women and men who perform medical miracles. Read more (Adobe PDF)

 

 

 GoodHearts News Release

GoodHearts Mentoring Foundation

January 2007

It's been 21 years since Dr. Dennis Modry performed the first heart transplant in Western Canada. In the past two decades more than 500 people have received this wonderful gift of a renewed life at the University of Alberta Hospital.

Today, some 100 adult recipients live, work and flourish in the Edmonton area; another dozen or so are waiting for a heart transplant. The Stollery Children's Hospital is equally successful and progressive with its pediatric heart transplant program. This tremendous progress in cardiology has lead to the establishment of the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, which is expected to open in 2007. Read more (Adobe PDF)

 

 

Support group set up for transplant recipients

Monday, November 06, 2006
By Chris Zdeb, The Edmonton Journal

EDMONTON - Getting a heart transplant is an incredible journey, says Silvio Dobri, who made the trip 81/2 years ago. But even though you have a caregiver with you, supporting you every step of the way, and all kinds of doctors and nurses, psychologists, social workers, physiotherapists and pharmacists to lean on, only another heart transplant patient truly understands the experience. Read more … (Online Article)

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