The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is honoring St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, Wishard Health Services, Riley Hospital for Children and Indiana University Hospital of Indianapolis for their success in increasing organ donation rates.
The hospitals received the department's Medal of Honor for Organ Donation for achieving and sustaining a donation rate of 75 percent or more of eligible donors.
"We are pleased and proud to see the incredible progress of our nation's hospitals in increasing donation rates," said Elizabeth M. Duke, administrator of HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration, in a prepared statement.
Her unit includes the federal government's organ donation activities. "In just four years, the number of hospitals that have achieved the 75 percent rate has soared from 55 to 392 -- a remarkable accomplishment," she said.
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