Hospital Recognized for Organ Donation

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Hospital Recognized for Organ Donation

By Katie Ussin

Story Published: May 1, 2008 at 6:57 PM MDT

Story Updated: May 1, 2008 at 6:57 PM MDT

BILLINGS - A local hospital receives a different kind of lifetime achievement award.

St. Vincent Healthcare was honored Thursday for saving 72 lives and improving more than 100 others through organ and tissue donations. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services honors the hospital for its high rate of transplants since 2003.

Susan Harpster, of Billings, is a double cornea transplant recipient, and thanks her donor family everyday for their gift. "Margie, my right-eye donor, had breast cancer and so her corneas were all she was able to donate, and what a blessing it's been to me to be able to see again," said Harpster.

Nearly 100,000 people are in need of a transplant, and 18 people die every day while waiting. To learn more or to register as an organ, eye, and tissue donor, please click here.

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