Taylorville Memorial Hospital will host a flag-raising ceremony on Tuesday, April 7. This ceremony is meant to be a call to attention on the importance of organ and tissue donation. The event will be held at 12PM at the flagpole located near the hospital’s main entrance.

Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network, which serves Illinois and northwest Indiana, states that nearly 5,000 Illinoisans are currently waiting for an organ transplant. 

Eli Heicher, chief nursing officer at TMH. said, since April is Donate Life Month, the hospital hold’s the flag-raising ceremony annually, to honor organ and tissue donors for giving the gift of life to others.

Officials from Memorial Health, Saving Sight, and Gift of Hope will be at the ceremony to give remarks during the flag raising. The public is welcome to attend this event as well. For those who would like to register as a new donor, there will be staff members in the hospital lobby to help you do so.

Similar ceremonies are planned at the other four Memorial Health hospitals in central Illinois in the upcoming weeks.

For further information go online to memorial.health or call your local Memorial Health Hospital branch