{"id":6376,"date":"2021-04-01T08:42:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/news\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2021-04-01T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:42:23","slug":"national-donate-life-month-help-end-the-wait-for-nevadans-waiting-for-a-second-chance-at-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/national-donate-life-month-help-end-the-wait-for-nevadans-waiting-for-a-second-chance-at-life\/","title":{"rendered":"National Donate Life Month: Help END THE WAIT for Nevadans waiting for a second chance at life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Joe Ferreira, President and CEO of Nevada Donor Network<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Did you know that more than 100,000 Americans need a lifesaving organ transplant \u2013 including nearly 600 Nevadans? Did you also know that with your help, we can END THE WAIT for those waiting for a second chance at life?<\/p>\r\n<p>During National Donate Life Month this April, we have an opportunity to bring awareness to the lifesaving and healing gift of donation and encourage more Nevadans like you to say \u201cYES\u2019\u2019 to becoming an organ, eye, and tissue donor. One heroic donor can make the gift of life possible for 8 people through organ donation; the gift of healing for 75 people through tissue donation; and the gift of sight for 2 people through cornea donation.<\/p>\r\n<p>Registration is easy \u2013 simply check \u2018YES\u2019 to organ donation at your nearest DMV office, or register online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.registerme.org\">www.registerme.org<\/a>. Have an iPhone? You can quickly register through your Health app.<\/p>\r\n<p>There are other ways to support Nevada Donor Network\u2019s mission throughout April, including joining our virtual \u201cHope Glows\u201d Fun Run\/Walk. We\u2019ve also partnered with a few local businesses to host an ICON fundraiser, where customers can purchase an anatomical heart for $1, $2, or $5.<\/p>\r\n<p>Together, we have the\u00a0power to save and heal lives.\u200b To learn more about registering to become an organ, eye, and tissue donor, register for our \u201cHope Glows\u201d Fun\/Run Walk, or to support our ICON fundraiser, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvdonor.org\/april\">www.nvdonor.org\/april<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joe Ferreira, President and CEO of Nevada Donor Network Did you know that more than 100,000 Americans need a lifesaving organ transplant \u2013 including nearly 600 Nevadans? Did you  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-6376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-guest-writer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}