Saving Sight, one of
the largest eye banks in the country, recognized the staff at Cox Medical
Center South on Friday, April 15, for their outstanding commitment to donation.
In
2015, staff at Cox Medical Center South helped to facilitate 150 eye donation
cases, which resulted in 143 individuals receiving restored sight through a
cornea transplant. Overall, the hospital achieved a 60 percent consent rate for
eye donation.
The
Excellence in Eye Donation Award was created in 2014 to recognize hospitals
that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to eye donation. Fewer than 15
percent of Saving Sight’s partner hospitals will be recognized with a 2015
Excellence in Eye Donation Award. This year marks the second time Cox Medical
Center South will receive the honor.
“We
applaud Cox Medical Center South for empowering others to give the gift of
sight and for striving to create a culture that supports donation,” says Tony
Bavuso, CEO of Saving Sight. “Thanks to the generosity of eye donors and their
families, and the staff Cox Medical Center South, more people than ever were
able to receive a sight-saving cornea transplant last year.”
Each
year around 48,000 individuals in the United States require a cornea transplant
to restore vision that has been lost due to disease, disorder or injury. With
the help of hospital partners like Cox Medical Center South, Saving Sight
provided corneas for more than 3,000 of those transplant surgeries in 2015.
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