Other Achievements - Awards

Medal of Honor for High Organ Donation Rates

Everyone knows organ donations can save lives. In fact, one donor alone can save the lives of eight people. However, there are nearly 100,000 patients waiting for organ transplants in the U.S., with 7,000 of them in the greater New York metropolitan area. Each day, on average, 17 people die because of the dire organ shortage.

Stony Brook University Hospital was presented with a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Organ Donor Medal of Honor in Nashville for substantially raising life-saving organ donor rates of eligible donors at its facility. As a result, 35 organs were transplanted.



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