Hospital Development Educational Opportunity

During Eye Donation Month in November, Saving Sight collaborated with Mid-America Transplant and Cox Medical Center Branson to provide a lunch and learn education to raise awareness about eye donation. We hosted three, 30-minute education sessions for approximately 35 hospital staff members. Saving Sight provided background information on eye donation and hospital policy, but emphasized education on registering to be a donor, the donor registry, and highlighting the impact donation has on both donor families and recipients. Hospital staff were very engaged in the presentation and there were a significant amount of questions and answers and open dialogue during each session. Many hospital staff members registered to be organ, eye, and tissue donors using their iOS Health app on their iPhones. Attendees were grateful and touched to hear the letters read and videos played from cornea recipient and donor family stories. Overall, this event was a successful collaboration and the knowledge and impact it left on the staff will lead us to continue doing these types of events each fall.