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SAN ANTONIO, April 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — One organ and tissue donor can impression as many as 75 folks, together with burn victims, breast most cancers survivors and people ready for life-saving organ transplants. In recognition of Nationwide Donate Life Month in April, Superior is proud to associate with South Texas Blood & Tissue Middle and Texas Organ Sharing Alliance to shine a lightweight on the distinction only one particular person could make.

That is the premise of a new video released this month that options Melissa Thomas, a long-time Superior HealthPlan member, who handed away in 2019. The video options Thomas’ mom in addition to representatives from Superior, South Texas Blood & Tissue Middle and Texas Organ Sharing Alliance, to not solely share Melissa’s story, but in addition reveal the significance of being an organ and tissue donor, encouraging Texans to enroll and save lives on the Donate Life Texas state registry. 

“To see Mary Kay telling Melissa’s story and the way beneficiant she was all through life is admittedly inspiring,” stated Ashley Frolick, Communications Specialist, BioBridge World (South Texas Blood & Tissue Middle). “Our group facilitates about 500 tissue recoveries annually, and it is by way of beneficiant donors like Melissa that we’re in a position to assist, heal and even save greater than 30,000 folks throughout the area yearly.”

“Mary Kay has turn out to be a giant advocate for organ and tissue donation since her daughter handed away,” defined Clarissa Thompson, Senior Communications Coordinator with Texas Organ Sharing Alliance. “She has such a lovely story to share as a result of Melissa was so obsessed with being a donor. When she handed, Melissa impacted so many lives, together with a 53-year-old man transplanted in Texas who obtained her liver.”

Folks of all ages and medical histories can register as donors. Together with kidneys, lungs or hearts, donors also can present pores and skin tissue, tendons and even bone to folks in want. A few of the methods organ and tissue donations are used embody: 

  • Serving to burn victims get well with new pores and skin tissue
  • Repairing fight wounds suffered by veterans
  • Permitting breast most cancers survivors to get well from surgical procedure
  • Therapeutic kids born with coronary heart defects
  • Offering a greater high quality of life for these affected by organ failure
  • Take away the necessity for dialysis by way of the life-saving present of a kidney transplant

“We’re proud to hitch South Texas Blood & Tissue Middle and Texas Organ Sharing Alliance to not solely inform Melissa’s story, but in addition give attention to the impression one donor could make within the lives of others,” stated Mark Sanders, President and CEO. “Our objective at Superior is to remodel the well being of Texas communities, one particular person at a time. Whereas we try this collectively as a company, I feel Melissa’s story is a novel instance of how only one particular person can try this, too. I sincerely thank Melissa’s household for serving to us share her story.”

About Superior HealthPlan 
Based in 1999, Superior HealthPlan is a managed care firm that delivers high quality healthcare all through Texas. Dedicated to reworking the well being of the group, one particular person at a time, Superior helps energetic native involvement in all 254 Texas counties with 4,000 workers in 9 workplaces all through the state. Superior is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Centene Company, a number one multi-national healthcare enterprise providing each core Medicaid and specialty providers. Extra data might be discovered at www.SuperiorHealthPlan.com.

About South Texas Blood and Tissue Middle
The South Texas Blood & Tissue Middle (STBTC) is a nonprofit group blood heart that gives blood, plasma, platelets and different blood parts to 100 hospitals in 48 South Texas counties. It’s the largest blood provider in our area. As well as, it recovers and distributes donated human tissue for transplant. STBTC has a 45-year historical past serving the South Texas group. It’s a part of the BioBridge Global household of nonprofit organizations, which presents providers in regenerative medication and analysis together with blood banking and useful resource administration; mobile remedy; umbilical wire blood assortment and storage; and testing of blood and plasma merchandise to assist sufferers in the US and worldwide. STBTC has seven donor rooms in South Texas and conducts tons of of cellular blood drives annually. STBTC is on-line at SouthTexasBlood.org.

About Texas Organ Sharing Alliance
Texas Organ Sharing Alliance (TOSA), based in 1975, is considered one of 58 federally-designated Organ Procurement Organizations (OPOs) in the US. TOSA is dedicated to a mission of saving lives by way of the ability of organ donation by offering organ donation and restoration providers to Central and South Texans wishing to donate, and to these ready for a life-saving organ transplant. 

 

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