Platinum Recipient

Grand Lake Health System

Establish a Donate Life Think Tank

3 employees and a senior leader to be part of this team

• Community Outreach Coordinator-she is already established in the community

• Marketing Administrative Assistant-she was already aware of all of the PR avenues that GLHS had in place

– Facebook• Administrative Assistant-she was able to

make everything look professional• Energetic speaker• Marketing Executive Director

Connect to Donate Life Ohio

• Become connected to the www.ohadonatelife.org   – Lots of tools to use– Letters; press releases etc.

Impactful Kick-off

• Plan an impactful Kick-off– Endorsed by CEO letter to all

employees– Newspaper coverage– Engagement of a LCO Ambassador

• GLHS was fortunate to have a staff member whose husband had received a liver 2 years ago and is a trained LCO Ambassador

– The wife many times accompanied him to share her journey. She is very dynamic and emotionally engaged in promotion of Donate life

Develop registration opportunities within your organization

– Registration booth outside of the cafeteria once a month

• Provide the Brochure, LCO pen and demonstrate the ease of filling out the application

– Pre-addressed envelops that they had the option to mail in or for us to mail it in

• If the individual is already a registered donor, we had a miniature Green Chair for them to sign and we posted them on the bulletin board outside of the cafeteria.

• We also had a poster displayed in each department of these registered donors.

Identify presentation opportunities

• Hospital Board• Hospital Leadership• Physician meetings• Hospital sponsored support

groups (Diabetic, Stroke, Parkinson)

• Hospital sponsored Health Fair

Community Organizations

• County Trustees/Clerks meeting• Public Retirement Organization• Ohio Division of Parks

– Area State Parks – Fish Hatchery

• Civic organizations• City Police/Fire/EMT meetings• Motorcycle Clubs

Community Organizations

• Read your local newspapers for articles about community organizations – Kiwanis– Optimist– Rotary– Council on Aging

Area Schools

• Provided contact information and established presentation engagements

• Driver’s Education presentations• Rhodes State College

• Medical Assistants program; considering Donate Life as part of the Ethics curriculum

• Presented to the American Association of Medical Assistants

Area Manufacturing Plants

• Occupational Health contacts• Payroll stuffers• Posters for the break room• 550 exposures

Radio/Newspaper

• Local radio stations• Newspaper articles of

presentations to various community organizations

• Become “news-worthy” with your activities

Be A Hero

• Think outside the box.• Do not be shy• Engage individuals who have

benefitted from a tissue/eye or organ donation