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\nThanks to New Transplant Donor Recovery Center, OneLegacy Freed Hospital ICU Beds <\/i><\/b>and<\/i> Enabled the Transplant of More Than 1,600 Lifesaving Organs<\/i><\/b>\n<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#donatelife<\/a>–OneLegacy announced today that it achieved two major milestones in 2022, helping more organ donors and families share the gift of life than ever in its history and the December opening of its new Transplant Donor Recovery Center in Azusa. The not-for-profit organ, eye and tissue recovery organization serving seven counties in Southern California enabled 647 organ donors in 2022, which is a 9.5 percent increase from 2021. One-third of these donors were transported to OneLegacy\u2019s Redlands and Azusa Transplant Donor Recovery Centers, saving the lives of more than 1,600 people and freeing hundreds of hospital ICU beds to serve other patients, while also enabling 133,000 site-saving and healing tissue transplants.\n<\/p>\n

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\nThis remarkable achievement \u2013 all thanks to the generosity of donors and their families \u2013 has been possible due to the coordinated efforts of more than 350 OneLegacy employees, over 200 local hospitals and 10 transplant centers, with the goal of saving and healing the lives of thousands of Southern Californians waiting for a lifesaving transplant.\n<\/p>\n

\n“Thanks to our Transplant Donor Recovery Centers in Redlands and Azusa, we were able to increase the number of organ donors in 2022, saving the lives of urgently waiting transplant patients while also freeing some 700 ICU bed days for critical care patients at our local hospitals that have seen bed shortages since the start of COVID,\u201d said OneLegacy CEO Prasad Garimella. \u201cWe are immensely grateful for the continuous support of healthcare providers, as well as our staff and, most importantly, local donors and their families who have said \u2018YES\u2019 to organ, eye and tissue donation, saving and healing thousands of lives in Southern California.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

\nGarimella projects that the new Transplant Donor Recovery Center in Azusa can potentially increase the number of lives saved and healed even further in 2023. \u201cWe look forward to working closely with local donor hospital partners and transplant centers to help free up more ICU beds and allow for more lives to be saved and healed in 2023 and many years to come,\u201d says Garimella.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the year just concluded, OneLegacy enabled the transplant of 1,628 organs from 647 donors, reflecting the organization\u2019s eighth consecutive year of record-breaking increases in lifesaving and healing organ donation and transplantation. In addition, in 2022 1,030 people had their vision restored through cornea transplants, and more than 133,000 lives were saved and healed through tissue donation and transplantation.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe 2022 performance by OneLegacy is part of a nationwide effort to increase the number of lives saved through organ donation. Thanks to this performance, OneLegacy was able to contribute to a historic 2022 milestone, when the U.S. achieved its one millionth organ transplant<\/i><\/b> in early September, surpassing any other country in the world. Thanks to the collective skills and dedication of thousands of organ donation and transplantation professionals, the nation is on track to enable more than 40,000 lifesaving transplants this year.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe record setting performance and the new Azusa facility\u2019s opening in 2022 were just two of many noteworthy achievements for OneLegacy in the year just concluded. Other milestones included:\n<\/p>\n