Providence works with OneLegacy to enhance lives via organ donations
- Providence Southern California hospitals partnered with OneLegacy to facilitate organ, eye, and tissue donations, saving 159 lives and improving 451 others in 2024.
Providence Southern California health officials recently announced patient success through organ, eye and tissue donations via a partnership with the nonprofit OneLegacy.
Providence hospitals across San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Orange counties have saved 159 lives in 2024 and improved the lives of 451 people by helping to coordinate organ, eye and tissue donations from patients who couldn’t be saved, officials said.
Providence officials said hospitals team with OneLegacy, which coordinates donations and transplants among hospitals across the Western states. This helps families fulfill the wishes of dying patients or assist them in making that difficult decision for their loved ones.
“These selfless gifts resulted in 67 organ, tissue and eye donors across Providence’s 11 Southern California hospitals, providing not only life-saving organs but 210 tissue donations and corneas that restored sight for 221 people,” health officials said. “With the exception of the Kidney Transplant Center at Providence St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Providence Southern California hospitals do not perform transplants, but care for their patients and their loved ones through the donation process.”
The San Bernardino County-based Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley is part of the health care network.
Providence South Division Chief Medical Officer Ranjit Hundal, who oversees the health organization’s California operations, said he witnessed the profound impact organ donation has on the lives of recipients and their families.
“Each donation is a gift of life, offering renewed hope, restored health and the chance for a brighter future,” Hundal said. “Together, we can transform lives through the power of compassion and generosity.”
Providence officials shared how they are committed to teaming with OneLegacy in caring for dying patients and their families to save lives through donation.
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Additionally, by helping the blind recover sight and providing skin, bone, tendons and ligaments, and even heart valves through tissue donations.
“Skin is used to heal burns and other injuries as well as in some surgeries,” health officials stated. “Bones, tendons and ligaments are used in various surgeries.”
Providence Southern California hospitals include:
- Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills.
- Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Burbank.
- Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center.
- Providence Saint John’s Health Center, Santa Monica
- Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Centers in Torrance and San Pedro.
- Providence St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton.
- Providence Mission Hospital with campuses in Mission Viejo and Laguna Beach.
- Providence St. Joseph Hospital, Orange.
- Providence. St. Mary Medical Center, Apple Valley.
Daily Press reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on X @DP_ReneDeLaCruz
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