Penn State Health celebrates Donate Life Month with flag-raising, Blue & Green Day

Penn State Health will honor organ donors and the recipients whose lives they have saved with two events during National Donate Life Month in April. The health system’s Transplant team will take part in a Donate Life flag-raising ceremony on Monday, April 11, at 11:30 a.m. outside Hershey Medical Center’s North Entrance.

A Mechanicsburg woman will attend the event along with her daughter, to whom she donated a kidney in 2021.

Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine staff and students are encouraged to show their support on Donate Life Blue & Green Day Friday, April 14 by wearing blue and green. The event helps raise awareness of the importance of registering to be an organ, eye and tissue donor.

Each April, National Donate Life Month honors deceased and living donors and their families, celebrates transplant recipients and recognizes those waiting for a lifesaving transplant.

The nonprofit group Donate Life America says that more than 100,000 people are waiting for organ transplants. Seventeen people die each day waiting for an organ transplant.

If you're having trouble accessing this content, or would like it in another format, please email the Penn State College of Medicine web department.