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Valentine’s Day is National Donor Day!

By
Dana Sparks

February 14, 2013

NEWS CONFERENCE: Record Number of Minnesota Heart Transplants in 2012
Last year Minnesota transplant centers performed a record number of heart transplants. LifeSource and Minnesota’s heart transplant centers – Abbott Northwestern, Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview – will hold a news conference today, to discuss the numbers.

WHEN:          Thursday, February 14^th                        10:30 a.m. CST
WHERE:         LifeSource
                        2550 University Avenue West
                        Suite 315 South
                        St. Paul, MN 55114

A donor family member whose loved one gave the gift of his heart will share his story, and two incredible heart transplant patients will also be at the news conference: Michelle, a 40- year-old woman from Monticello, and Kaiya, a 20-month-old girl from the Twin Cities. The compelling story of Alyssa Sandeen, a young woman currently waiting for her second heart transplant will also be available.

Sound bites w/ and b-roll of Alyssa in the hospital are available in the downloads above