{"id":178302,"date":"2026-02-24T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178302\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T17:48:07","slug":"childrens-health-plano-phlebotomist-makes-lifesaving-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178302\/","title":{"rendered":"Children\u2019s Health Plano Phlebotomist Makes Lifesaving Donation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Hilaman’s decision to register with the National Marrow Donor Program led to a lifesaving match with a 10-year-old patient.<\/p>\n

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Through her work as a phlebotomist at Children\u2019s Health Plano, Sarah Hilaman is part of a world-class pediatric medical team serving kids across North Texas. In recent months, however, her registration with the National Marrow Donor Program<\/a> (NMDP) led to an even stronger connection with a patient. It all started with a personal experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cI watched family members go through cancer treatment,\u201d Hilaman says. \u201cSeeing the difficulties of treatment, and then coming to realize there was something I could do to help, is what motivated me to register.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Marrow donations are utilized in the treatment of 75 different blood cancers and life-threatening diseases. Established in 1986, the NMDP currently lists over 42 million potential donors around the world, all searchable by patients in need. Signing up took just a few minutes, and Hilaman subsequently matched with 10-year-old Santiago at Texas Children\u2019s Hospital in Houston. Her donation was the key to helping him win his fight against T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Photo courtesy of NMDP<\/p>\n

Hilaman and Santiago met for the first time on stage at NMDP\u2019s One Forum conference late last year. In honor of February\u2019s National Donor Day<\/a>, Hilaman is sharing her story in hopes of inspiring others to register as potential donors.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeeing this healthy, smiling little boy who is getting to live his life because of a little piece of me, it\u2019s hard to describe how meaningful that is,\u201d says Hilaman. \u201cWe will be part of each other\u2019s lives forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Registration takes ten minutes or less; for those unable to donate, additional opportunities are available to support the NMDP. For more information, visit my.nmdp.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sarah Hilaman’s decision to register with the National Marrow Donor Program led to a lifesaving match with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-178302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}