Lights and Flag Show Support for Organ Donation at Cook Children’s

Cook Children’s will fly a flag and light up our Fort Worth medical center in blue and green from April 21-25 to raise awareness for organ donation.

April is National Donate Life Month, which encourages people to register as organ, eye and tissue donors. Almost 100,000 people in the United States are awaiting a transplant.

Cook Children’s partners with the organ procurement organization LifeGift. Representatives from LifeGift will help raise the “Donate Life” flag on our medical center campus on Thursday, April 24, in honor of the patients who have received donated organs and the deceased patients who became organ donors.

“Cook Children’s has been working with LifeGift for years so we can help save lives in another way,” said Marie Boyd, Office Operations Manager in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Donors at Cook Children’s have provided kidneys, hearts, livers, lungs and other organs for transplant surgeries across Texas and beyond. Their first names and ages are etched into a memorial plaque near the medical center’s prayer garden.

From 2022-2024 at Cook Children’s there were 23 organ donors and 75 organs transplanted for a total of 63 lives saved.

“In the face of unimaginable loss, organ donation offers grieving families a rare and powerful gift: the chance for their child’s legacy to live on by saving another life or lives.  It’s a profound reminder that even in the darkest moments, hope can take root,” said Mindy Coates, BSN, RN and LifeGift Chair.

LifeGift delivers lifesaving transplants to those who need them. Sign up online to register as a donor.

Photos from a previous year’s observance of National Donate Life Month at Cook Children’s.