(Middletown, NY) – On Wednesday, October 10, Orange Regional Medical Center will be take part in the 6th Annual Organ Donor Enrollment Day, organized by LiveOnNY, a nonprofit, federally designated organ procurement organization dedicated to saving lives, providing comfort and strengthening legacies through organ, eye, and tissue donation.
The event is open to the public. An information and donor enrollment booth will be set up near the cafeteria on the ground floor at Orange Regional Medical Center located at 707 East Main Street in Middletown from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
“The goal of Organ Donor Enrollment Day is to increase the number of organ donors, and potentially save lives, by enrolling as many willing people as possible in a single day,” said Kathy Bermo, RN, Nursing Director, Intensive Care Services and Orange Regional’s 2019 Organ Donor Enrollment Champion. “We are pleased to be working with LiveOnNY again as part of this lifesaving movement.”
The event will be open to the public and does not require pre-registration.
Orange Regional staff will be on hand to assist and everyone who enrolls as an organ donor will receive a free gift. Anyone wishing to become an organ or tissue donor can also register online at www.Registerme.org/EnrollmentDay.
About Orange Regional Medical Center
Orange Regional features seven floors of state-of-the-art technology and provides 383 beds and employs approximately 3,300 healthcare professionals. In addition to inpatient services, highlights of Orange Regional include a cancer center and a five-story outpatient services building on the main campus, featuring Orange Regional Medical Group with primary care and specialty physicians, urgent care, outpatient surgical and diagnostic services and more. Orange Regional was named by Healthgrades as one of the 100 best hospitals nationally for cardiac intervention and General Surgery and was a recipient of the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™. Orange Regional also achieved the Healthgrades 2019 America’s 250 Best Hospitals Award™ placing the hospital in the top 5 percent of more than 4,500 hospitals assessed nationwide for its superior clinical performance. In 2017, Orange Regional was named the Most Beautiful Hospital in the US and is recognized by US News & World Report as a Best Regional Hospital. It is a recipient of the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite; a designated Magnet hospital recognizing excellence in Nursing and its Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system has achieved Stage 7; the highest level on HIMSS Analytics’ EMR adoption model. Orange Regional Medical Center (ORMC) is an Academic Affiliate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. It is also a member of the Greater Hudson Valley Health System (GHVHS), which is recognized by Ethisphere as one of the 2018 and 2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies. To learn more about ORMC, visit www.ormc.org.
