Articles tagged with 'organ donation' | Checkup Newsroom

Each year, Cook Children’s flies a flag and lights up our Fort Worth Medical Center in blue and green to raise awareness for organ donation.Cook Children’s partners with the organ procurement organization LifeGift. On April 24, representatives from …

Because of organ donation, the tragic death of 7-year-old Justin Owens produced a new lease on life for four other people.Justin is one of 58 deceased patients at Cook Children’s who became organ donors from 2017 to 2021. Those donors provided 223 …

Cook Children’s currently has 12 patients waiting for a kidney. Thanks to a gracious act of kindness from one teenager in Arizona, a 1 year old from Joshua, Texas is no longer on that list. Following a head injury while …