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Together, Let’s Make An Impact Beyond Life! Thank you for choosing to learn more about High Point University’s Willed Body Program and how you can make an impact beyond life. We are a Willed Body Program that is committed to honoring the wishes of the generous donors who seek to provide higher anatomical educational learning, research and medical training opportunities to our health care students and health services’ community. At High Point University our graduate programs in Athletic Training, Physician Assistant Studies, and Physical Therapy, and undergraduate course in Advanced Anatomy are eternally indebted to the donors and their families for their gracious gifts. The opportunity to learn from a donor creates an enriching experience for a student and impacts their learning beyond the classroom walls. With your invaluable gift, you transform into a teacher of irreplaceable knowledge. Your gift not only provides lessons in anatomical structures of the human body, it helps develop our students with the mindset of putting their patient’s needs first. Your gift has the power to teach our students the true meaning of respect
and dignity for a patient and turn learned ethics into honorable actions. It is through your priceless gift that our students will continue to develop into exceptional patient-centered health care providers. The gift of one’s body for anatomical education and research provides many avenues for the advancement of health sciences that reach far beyond our students. High Point’s community of health care professionals have the unique opportunity to form an interprofessional relationship with the Willed Body Program and its donors. Through this partnership, that fosters innovative research and advanced clinical studies, we promise to create and bring forth the best patient-centered health care today, tomorrow and forever. The information in this guide is provided to support you and your family in the choice to make An Impact Beyond Life. CONTACT US For more information, to talk directly with our staff, or to visit our campus, please contact the Willed Body Program by phone at 336-841-LIFE (5433) or by email at impactlife@highpoint.edu. To visit our website or to download our forms please go to highpoint.edu/willedbody
Who Can Donate? Under the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act of North Carolina Subject to General Statutes: §130A-412.6: Any competent person 18 years or older can will his or her body to High Point University’s Willed Body Program. §130A-412.11: Any person legally authorized to make an anatomical gift of a decedent’s body can donate the body of their loved one to High Point University’s Willed Body Program.
CRITERIA TO BE A DONOR High Point University’s Willed Body Program is a whole-body donation program. Organ and tissue donation, other than the donation of eyes for corneal transplantion will make a donor unsuitable for our program. To become a donor an individual must not carry any infectious communicable disease, such as, but not limited to; • Hepatitis B & Hepatitis C • HIV/AIDS • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease • Tuberculosis • MRSA • Syphilis To become a donor an individual cannot have any of the following medical or physical conditions at time of death, such as, but not limited to; • Emaciation or obesity • Extensive burns or trauma • Advanced decomposition • Autopsy by Medical Examiner
ALTERNATIVE ARRANGEMENTS High Point University reserves the right, at any time, to decline a donation that does not meet the criteria for acceptance into the Willed Body Program. The final decision to accept a gift is at the sole discretion of the Willed Body Program. High Point University highly advises donors, donor families, or authorized person(s) to have alternative arrangements should a donor not meet the criteria of our program upon death. Every effort will be made to accept and use an anatomical gift that has been donated to the Willed Body Program.
“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” ~Henry Melvill
How to Register Your Gift. To register for anatomical donation, a donor or legally authorized person(s) must complete a Document of Gift form that is signed by the donor or legally authorized person(s) and two witnesses in the presence of each other. The Willed Body Program also requires that a donor or legally authorized person(s) complete a Vital Statistics Worksheet and Medical and Social History Worksheet. All forms must be completed and delivered to: High Point University Congdon School of Health Sciences Willed Body Program-D71 One University Parkway, High Point, North Carolina 27268-0001 Fax: 336-888-3695 | Email: impactlife@highpoint.edu
CAN A GIFT BE REVOKED?
Yes! A donor or an authorized representative may revoke an anatomical gift at any time prior to death in writing and by submitting the revocation to High Point University’s Willed Body Program.
DONOR CARD ___________________________________________________________________ Name of Donor
In the hope that I may help others, I hereby give my entire body intact for anatomical study, if needed and medically acceptable, to take effect upon myby death. Signed the donor and the following two witnesses in the presence of each other: Preferred Donee is: High Point University ______________________________________________ ____________________ Signature of Donor Date of Birth ______________________________________________ ____________________ City and State Date Signed
THE COST TO DONATE
_________________________________ _________________________________ First Witness Disinterested Witness For further information consult your physician or High Point University | Congdon School of Health Sciences Willed Body Program-D71 One University Parkway, High Point, North Carolina 27268-0001 336-841-LIFE (5433) | impactlife@highpoint.edu
High Point University’s Willed Body Program is committed to making the choice to donate stress free for you and your family. For this reason, we will cover the cost of the following: • • • • • • •
Transportation (within 300 miles*) to our on-campus Care Center Filing of the death certificate and burial transit permit Preparation for donation and cremation upon completion An urn that the cremated remains are placed into following cremation Interring cremated remains in the Willed Body Program’s Memorial Garden Scattering the cremated remains at sea in the Atlantic Ocean Returning cremated remains by certified mail through the United States Postal Service
DONOR CARD
Once all forms have been received, reviewed and accepted by High Point University’s Willed Body Program, an acknowledgement of receipt along with three Donor Cards will be mailed to you. You should keep one Donor Card for your own personal records in a purse or wallet and give the others to trusted individuals that will assist in carrying out your wish to donate to High Point University.
How Will A Gift Be Used? High Point University’s Willed Body Program strongly believes in the numerous benefits that come from whole-body donations. For this reason, we believe that higher education should never stop but continue throughout one’s life. Below are just some examples of how the gift of whole-body donation can make a lasting impact on our students and on our health sciences community.
EDUCATING our graduate students in Athletic
Training, Physician Assistant Studies, and Physical Therapy, and our undergraduate Advanced Anatomy students with exceptional knowledge and dynamic understanding of the human body.
ADVANCING new physical and medical techniques
or devices for sustainable patient health care by our local health care community of doctors, nurses, physicians, physicians assistants, and many more.
DEVELOPING cutting-edge medical training for our emergency responders, military professionals and more.
HOW LONG IS A GIFT USED? Generally, the Willed Body Program retains a donor’s remains for a period of three weeks to two years before cremation occurs and final disposition.
Final Disposition Selections. Following the return of cremated remains from the contracted crematory, the Willed Body Program will review the signed document of gift form and follow instructions to either:
➊ INTER
Inter the cremated remains in the Willed Body Program’s Memorial Garden located at High Point University.
➋ RETURN
Return the cremated remains to the appointed representative(s) in the order listed in the document of gift.
SCATTER AT SEA ➌
Return of cremated remains will be done by certified mail through United States Postal Service, or through a scheduled appointment with the Willed Body Program.
Scatter the cremated remains at sea in the Atlantic Ocean. This will take place at a time determined by the Willed Body Program. Upon completion, the Willed Body Program will mail a letter to the appointed representative(s) with the coordinates that the donor’s cremated remains were scattered.
HONORING OUR DONORS BEYOND THEIR GIFT Every student, faculty, staff member, and esteemed member of the health sciences community understands the importance of these charitable gifts and the value they bring to advancing health sciences. For these reasons, High Point University’s Willed Body Program developed unique ways to honor EVERY donor. ANNUAL MEMORIAL SERVICE To show our reverence and to thank our generous donors, their family and friends, the Willed Body Program invites all to join us at our annual memorial service. During the service students, faculty, and the community will have an opportunity to express what each gift meant to them. It is our hope that comfort and peace will touch the hearts of all who attend.
TREE OF LIFE Located on the wall before you enter the Anatomy Laboratory is an 8’3” tall Tree of Life. Each donor has the option to have their name, or “anonymous”, inscribed on a leaf that adorns the tree. MEMORIAL GARDEN Located between Congdon Hall and Wanek School of Undergraduate Sciences will be our dedicated memorial garden. Family and friends are invited any day of the year to come, sit and reflect in a place of quiet beauty and spiritual reassurance.
What To Do At Time Of Death. Upon the death of a donor, or potential donor, High Point University’s Willed Body Program should be notified at 336-841-LIFE (5433) to determine if the donor is, or remains, a candidate for our program. Our dedicated staff, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, will review the requirements for acceptance. Upon acceptance, the Willed Body Program will coordinate the transportation of the donor at the place of death to our on-campus Care Center, no more than 24 hours after death unless authorization has been given by the Willed Body Program to allow for additional time. All notifications of death should occur no more than 24 hours after death to ensure that the wishes of a donor can be met and that other arrangements can be made should a donor not be accepted.
“Thank you to all of our ‘teachers’ who have so generously given the gift of preparing our health care professionals for the world as it is going to be.”
If a donor is located at a funeral home please have the Funeral Director call the Willed Body Program to schedule the transfer of the donor into our care. Any additional services selected at the funeral home will be at the expense of the individual(s) selecting the services. High Point University is not responsible for additional services that are outside the scope of our agreement.
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Congdon School of Health Sciences Willed Body Program-D71 One University Parkway, High Point, North Carolina 27268-0001 Phone: 336-841-(LIFE)5433 | Fax: 336-888-3695 | Email: impactlife@highpoint.edu | highpoint.edu/willedbody