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4.6.2022
Transplant Team Creates a Garden of Pinwheels to Honor Those Who Have Donated Life
Team members from the UVA Health Charles O. Strickler Transplant Center and LifeNet Health recently came together to install the 2nd Annual Pinwheel Garden in front of the West Complex for Donate Life Month.
"We hope you find our garden as a place to remember and honor those who have given the gift of life and enhanced the lives of others through organ, eye, and tissue donation," says Amy Schmidt-Morris, Senior Adviser, Special Projects. "We also hope you will find gratitude in our garden for the countless number of nurses, social workers, physicians, financial coordinators, access associates, surgeons, pharmacists, and nutrition, speech, occupational and physical therapists, who make transplantation possible."
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The garden will be on display through April 30.
See photos from the installation below.
Wonderful unique way to remember the many donors who gave life to others through organ donation!!!! Kudos to the transplant center and the team!
With the pinwheels constantly spinning by the grace of the wind that drives them, we recognize the nature of the power of organ transplantation to give life, address human suffering and end stage organ damage and to provide support to patients and those in need without prejudice. On the inside, we all share the same life blood and organs look no different coming from a man or a woman, a white or a black person, a Christian or a Jew, a Ukranian or a Russian, or a non citizen from Alabama or Maine.
Transplantation embodies respect for life, equity and justice for all, inclusion and diversity. Enjoy the Pinwheel Garden, it stands for so much more than Organ Donation Month!!
Beautiful, I love seeing this celebration of life especially with the spring blooms coming up, it gives me hope for better days to come. Thank you to the transplant team for making a difference every day and being such a strong team.