Living Legacy Foundation of Maryland

Organ coordination: kidney, heart, liver, pancreas, intestines, and lung organs have The potential of being recovered by llf's team of clinical staff along with The Transplant surgeon. These organs, once recovered, are transported and transplanted into a recipient patient. Llf staff members perform an on-site review of The patient's clinical course, are responsible for The clinical management of organ donors, and provide technical support to The coordinators and surgeons during The recovery process.

Family consent: The family services coordinator is responsible for coordinating a wide range of support for potential organ and tissue donor families. They establish initial contact with The potential donor family and provide trauma, grief, and bereavement services for The family or identify hospital resources to provide these services. Information is to be articulated in an easily understood and accurate manner to families whose ability to process information is impaired by emotionally traumatic circumstances. The coordinators offer support to potential donor families for as long as necessary. They provide two years of aftercare support and handle all communication that may occur between The donors' families and The recipients.

Coordination and donor services: coordinators who provide donor services receive The initial communication of a potential donor case. They are responsible for local organ allocation, logistical planning, import offers, triage of referrals, and logistics for tissue donation. Donor services coordinate all aspects of The process in collaboration with llf's family services staff, tissue recovery team, and The quality assurance department.

Skin processing: skin processing provides The recovery of safe, high quality allograft skin to be used for treatment in burn, trauma and wound care cases. This program also provides cost effective, specifically sized allograft skin products and processing services to other third-party tissue recovery programs.

Tissue coordination: skin, eyes, bones, and cardiovascular tissue are recovered by llf's highly trained team and are packaged according to The food and drug administration guidelines before they are sent to llf's processors.

Education, outreach, and hospital development: The hospital development department functions as The advisors to The hospital staff with which llf partners. They work collaboratively with The hospitals to identify and implement solutions for best practices in The industry. The community outreach department is responsible for educating The community about organ, eye, and tissue donation and empowering The public to designate themselves as donors through public education. This includes informing people about The donation process, dispelling myths and misconceptions, and sharing The stories of second chances at life. They also facilitate awareness events, community partnerships, presentations, grassroots organizing, marketing communications campaigns, and more.