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Causes: Health, Organ & Tissue Banks
Mission: The living legacy foundation (llf) facilitates the donation and recovery of human organs and tissues for transplantation and research. Llf provides advocacy, family support, and comprehensive public and professional education, and is committed to organizational excellence to enhance the organ and tissue donation and distribution processes.
Programs: Organ coordination: kidney, heart, liver, and lung organs have the potential of being recovered by llf's team of clinical staff along with the transplant surgeon. These organs, once recovered, are transported and transplanted into the recipient patient. Llf staff members perform an on-site review of the patient's clinical course, are responsible for the clinical management of organ donors, and provide technical support to the coordinators and surgeons during the recovery process.
coordination and donor services: coordinators who provide donor services receive the initial communication of a potential donor case. They are responsible for local organ allocation, logistical planning, import offers, triage of referrals, and logistics for tissue donation. Donor services coordinate all aspects of the process in collaboration with llf's family services staff, tissue recovery team, and the quality assurance department.
education, outreach and hospital development: the hospital development department functions as the advisors to the hospital staff with which llf partners. They work collaboratively with the hospitals to identify and implement solutions for best practices in the industry. The public education department promotes the awareness for the state of maryland and has developed and maintains a volunteer program to assist in the attendance of many different functions throughout the state (i. E. , health fairs, back-to-school initiatives, student education programming, organ transplant initiatives with sororities, fraternities, and professional societies, and sponsorships).