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Caring for Families: Aftercare

Kelley Green Manager, Donor Family Services

By honoring a donor’s wish or supporting a family’s decision to donate we can offer them HOPE.

Donor families are supported by our Aftercare Program. Donors are honored through the Aftercare Program.

Supporting Families

“Thank you for taking the greatest tragedy of my life and transforming it into as positive an outcome as possible!”

“I received the anniversary card in Virginia exactly one year on the exact date I lost my brother; I appreciated it so much!”

Support continues as needed

• Grief support through phone calls or by providing resources

• Updates on organ recipients or tissue disposition

• Correspondence - donor families and recipients

• 20% organ families receive letters

• <5% for tissue families – increasing with help from tissue processors

Support continues as needed

• Facilitate meetings between donor families and recipients

• Since 1993, NEOB has facilitated over 500 donor family/recipient contacts or meetings

Honoring the Heroes

What you do makes a difference…

Thank you for the work that you do to support the donation decision.