{"id":253382,"date":"2026-05-01T03:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253382\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:16:07","slug":"jacksonville-memorial-hospital-raising-awareness-for-becoming-an-organ-donor-with-flag-raising-event-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253382\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Memorial Hospital raising awareness for becoming an organ donor with flag-raising event | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville Memorial hospital held a flag-raising ceremony on Thursday, April 30, 2026&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Calling attention to the importance of organ and tissue donation.<\/p>\n<p>April is National Donate Life Month.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s event is a way to honor donors for giving back to those in need.<\/p>\n<p>Diana Maupin, the Donation Liaison for Gift of Hope says, &#8220;Over the last ten years we&#8217;ve had close to eighty donors, tissue donors, here at Jacksonville Memorial Hospital. And that&#8217;s over a thousand tissues that have been transplanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Flag-raising ceremonies were also held in April at Memorial hospitals in Springfield, Decatur, Taylorville, and Lincoln.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville Memorial hospital held a flag-raising ceremony on Thursday, April 30, 2026&#8230; Calling attention to the importance of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-253382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253382","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=253382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}