{"id":4380,"date":"2019-05-03T16:44:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2019-05-03T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:45:06","slug":"jamaica-hospital-recognizes-national-donate-life-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-recognizes-national-donate-life-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica Hospital Recognizes National Donate Life Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a name=\"fb_share\" type=\"box_count\" share_url=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-recognizes-national-donate-life-month\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php\">Share<\/a><\/div><div><script src=\"http:\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/connect.php\/js\/FB.Share\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4381 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BlueGreen1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"195\" \/>April was National Donate Life Month and once again Jamaica Hospital displayed its commitment to this very worthy effort by participating in a series of events.<\/p>\n<p>As is tradition, the hospital raised a flag to increase organ donation awareness and on Friday, April 12<sup>th<\/sup>, employees across Jamaica Hospital celebrated Blue and Green Day by proudly wearing the official colors of Donate Life Month. Many photos were taken and shared on Jamaica Hospital\u2019s and LiveOnNY\u2019s social media accounts for thousands to see.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4382 \" src=\"http:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BlueGreen2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"204\" \/>On April 30<sup>th<\/sup>, Jamaica Hospital invited members from LiveOnNY to visit and speak with hospital employees. The LiveOnNY team was accompanied by kidney recipient Kenneth Teasley. Mr. Teasley shared his personal experience with employees on many of the hospital\u2019s nursing units and urged them to enroll to become organ donors.<\/p>\n<p>The month-long observance culminated with a moment of gratitude which was held at 3:00 pm on April 30<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 At this time, a LiveOnNY representative read a brief statement to pay tribute to those individuals who saved lives through organ donation.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing awareness about the importance of organ and tissue donation remains an important cause to Jamaica Hospital and we are proud of the collaborative efforts on LiveOnNY and our employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShareApril was National Donate Life Month and once again Jamaica Hospital displayed its commitment to this very worthy effort by participating in a series of events. As is tradition, the hospital raised a flag to increase organ donation awareness and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/jamaica-hospital-recognizes-national-donate-life-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89,88,72,86,87],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jhmc","tag-blue-and-green-day","tag-donate-life-month","tag-jamaica-hospital","tag-liveonny","tag-organ-donation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medisyshealth.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}