Medical Examiner Partnerships in Restoring Health and Advancing Life-Saving Medical Research
You can play a pivotal role in driving medical research forward, contributing to breakthroughs that can benefit millions of lives. Through strategic partnerships with organizations like LifeNet Health, Medical Examiners facilitate tissue donations that are essential for scientific breakthroughs and treatment advancements. These collaborations honor donor decisions, support families, and contribute to life-saving and life-enhancing grafts. By engaging in the tissue donation continuum, you can help ensure that valuable donations are used to their fullest potential, driving medical progress and offering hope and healing to countless individuals worldwide.
Your Role in Research Donations
We typically have 20 to 30 ongoing research projects that require healthy or diseased organ or tissue, including supporting groundbreaking research like our partnership to help find a cure for CTE with the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.
LIST OF CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
While hospitals are required to report all deaths to an OPO or tissue bank, nearly two thirds of deaths occur outside of hospital settings. You can play a crucial role in offering research donation as an option for families. To learn more about the hospital referral process, visit our referrals partner page. To learn more about how you can set up a custom referral program and contribute to giving hope.
How We Support Your Mission
As the only full-service tissue bank serving Virginia, Florida, and the Pacific Northwest, LifeNet Health proudly offers an unprecedented level of support and expertise. We work with thousands of organizations including hospitals, community partners, and organ procurement organizations across the United States. We are committed to providing you with the tools you need to honor donor and family decisions.
Detailed pathology reports are available upon request, depending on the type of procurement. For specific inquiries, please use the Contact Us button.
• Example of Neuropathology Report
• Example of Cardiovascular Pathology Report
To learn more about the lasting impact of donation, read Kelly’s story. His gifts have helped more than 180 lives through tissue and cornea donations, and potentially thousands more by donating his brain for research.
Get involved today, please contact MECoronerSupport@lifenethealth.org
Additional Resources
- To learn about our various allografts, visit: Allograft Academy
- To learn more about the enduring impact of donation, visit our Stories of Hope
- For more details about our donor family bereavement services, please visit Healing the Spirit
- Tissue donation services
- Tissue donation for research
