Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates
Sample Memo
Date: March 30, 2010
From: Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center
We are pleased to invite the public to view the Donor Family Memorial Quilt which will
be on display in the lobby of Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville,
Kentucky, on Monday, April 26. You are urged to come and view the Quilt between the
hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. at a display in the lobby.
This quilt memorializes individuals who offered the Gift of Life to others through organ
and tissue donation and transplantation. Today, in the United States alone, over 105,000
people are on the waiting list for a life saving organ transplant. Of those people, over 750
are residents of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Some of them may live in our own
community!
We will also offer at this time a table of information, staffed by a member of the
Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates who will be able to answer your questions about organ
donation and will offer members of our community the opportunity to register on the
newly created Kentucky Organ Donor Registry! This registry will enable you to place your
name on the registry listing, stating your wishes to be an organ donor. If you have signed
your driver’s license in the past, it is now necessary to take this next step and sign the
Kentucky Organ Donor Registry.
If you have questions, please call __________(Hospital Contact). If you are interested in
having a free presentation about organ donation at your next civic organization meeting,
please call 1-800-525-3456, and ask for Charlotte Wong.