Health Matters, Television for Life

Your opportunity to talk directly with physicians, nurses and other regional experts about the health issues that are important to you. Teresa Lukens hosts this monthly conversation and viewers are encouraged to call, text or email their questions in advance for the panel. Send your questions to healthmatters@ksps.org

Gift of Life: Organ Donations & Transplants

Meet a Spokane man with a new heart, a kidney recipient and his donor, and their surgeons.

Over 100,000 people in the U.S are on an organ donation list, and 20 die each day waiting for transplants. Only 3 out of 1,000 are able to donate organs after they die. Health Matters introduces you to someone whose life was saved by a transplant, you’ll meet a living donor and get the latest transplant and organ donation information from health care professionals.

Guests:

Cristy Smith MD
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center

Chrissy Schmidt
LifeCenter Northwest

Juan Mejia MD
Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center

Dr. Ellen Klohe
Vitalant Blood Center

Helpful Links:

Providence Health & Services
sacredheartlivingdonor.org
https://washington.providence.org/locations-directory/k/kidney-pancreas-transplant

LifeCenter Northwest
lcnw.org

Vitalant
Vitalant.org

General Information about Organ Donation:

www.mayoclinic.org

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