{"id":236169,"date":"2026-04-17T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236169\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T21:32:10","slug":"adventhealth-orlando-honors-organ-donors-during-national-donate-life-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236169\/","title":{"rendered":"AdventHealth Orlando honors organ donors during National Donate Life Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fl.adventhealthtransplantinstitute.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:AdventHealth Orlando;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AdventHealth Orlando&quot;}\" class=\"link \">AdventHealth Orlando<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ourlegacyfl.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:OurLegacy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;OurLegacy&quot;}\" class=\"link \">OurLegacy<\/a> marked National Donate Life Month on Friday by honoring organ donors and encouraging more Floridians to register as donors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Outside the hospital, organizers installed a pinwheel garden with more than 200 displays, each representing a Central Florida organ donor whose donation helped save lives in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hospital staff also took part in awareness walks across Central Florida while wearing blue and green, the colors associated with organ donation awareness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Doctors involved in the event said the need for donors continues to outpace available organs despite record transplant numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More than 100,000 people in the United States are currently waiting for a transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AdventHealth officials said its transplant institute remains Central Florida\u2019s only solid-organ transplant program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Family members of past donors also took part in Friday\u2019s event, including relatives of donor recipients and donor families who shared personal stories about how donation changed lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Florida residents can register to become organ donors through the state donor registry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;click here&quot;}\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AdventHealth Orlando and OurLegacy marked National Donate Life Month on Friday by honoring organ donors and encouraging more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[91593,147,105120,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-236169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-adventhealth-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-organ-donors","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}