A Unique Group of Heart Transplant Recipients
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Heart Transplant Recipients Dedicated to Organ Donation Awareness and Providing Information and Support to its members
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News/Events
February is Heart Month and Thursday, February 13th, 2025 is Wear Red Canada Day! Proudly wear your red in support of women's heart health. You can visit WEARREDCANADA.CA for more information and resources. HeartLinks Manitoba held its annual 2024 AGM and Christmas party on Thursday, December 5th, 2024. For event wrap up details and pictu
February is Heart Month and Thursday, February 13th, 2025 is Wear Red Canada Day! Proudly wear your red in support of women's heart health. You can visit WEARREDCANADA.CA for more information and resources. HeartLinks Manitoba held its annual 2024 AGM and Christmas party on Thursday, December 5th, 2024. For event wrap up details and pictures please visit our events page. The Canadian Transplant games wrapped up in Ottawa this past August. Our own Mark Miles represented our HeartLinks group, along with several other althletes representing Manitoba. Please visit the events page to see pictures The games were successful and everyone had fun! In June, HeartLinks Manitoba enjoyed its 2024 annual summer picnic. For picnic event details please visit our events page.
National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week (NOTDAW) 2024 wrapped up April 27th, 2024. The week is dedicated to shining a light on the power of donation and transplantation. This year NOTDAW 2025 will run from April 20 - 26, and Green Shirt Day will be on Monday April 7, 2025. Stay tune on our events page as we get closer to these dates.
Organ and tissue donation saves lives. By registering your intent using Manitoba's online organ and tissue donor registry www.signupforlife.ca information about your donation decision will be available and accessible should it ever be required. As 2024 rolled to a close and we begin the start of a new year, another 1,000 new registrations have been added to Manitoba's online organ and tissue donor registry www.signupforlife.ca The registry now holds more than 71,000 registrations! Nearly everyone has the potential to be an organ and tissue donor. One donor can save the life of eight people and enhance the quality of life for another 75 through the gift of tissue donation. Registration takes two minutes and three pieces of information; name, birthday and nine-digit health number. Between 2012 when the www.signupforlife.ca online donor registry began and 2021, organ donations and transplantations increased by 23%, with 1,328 donations and 2,750 transplantations occurring in 2021. We as a group of grateful organ recipients, will continue in doing our part to spread organ and tissue donor awareness!
Health/Information News and 2024 Transplant Manitoba Wrap up
February is Heart Month and the 2025 Mega Heart Event will be held Sunday, February 23rd from 1 - 4 pm at The Wellness Institute. This event is brought to by The Manitoba Association of Cardiology Technologists. It is three hours packed full of heart inspired events, fun and education. And it's FREE!! Come on down. We hope to see you ther
February is Heart Month and the 2025 Mega Heart Event will be held Sunday, February 23rd from 1 - 4 pm at The Wellness Institute. This event is brought to by The Manitoba Association of Cardiology Technologists. It is three hours packed full of heart inspired events, fun and education. And it's FREE!! Come on down. We hope to see you there! Transplant Manitoba has many volunteers who love to help spread organ donor awareness. Some ways in which they help are during NOTDAW. NOTDAW 2024 was kicked off with some big competition for their first ever Quiz Night with a house full of team. A fun night was had and they are planning another so mark your calendars for April 9, 2025 and stay tuned for more details. Volunteers also showed up for Comicon Winnipeg in an effort to reach the larger community about organ donor awareness. Nurses week 2024 was May 6-12th. This year's theme is: Changing Lives. Shaping Tomorrow. Visit our health and information news page to read a fantastic story published by St. Boniface Hospital Foundation (SBHF) featuring our very own transplant nurse Shari Barker. Nurses play a crucial role in directly impacting the lives of patients. Through their care compassion and expertise, they contribute to positive changes in the health and well being of their patients. HeartLinks Manitoba, along with SBHF celebrate Shari Barker's incredible nursing skills and most importantly, her care and compassion for each patient. Additionally, Shari was presented with a nursing award at the St. Boniface Hospital. Dr. Michael Helewa and Alan Scramstad were both in attendance for Shari's award presentation. We Love you Shari! It's that time of year to look back and wrap up 2024. Transplant Manitoba kicked off NOTDAW with it's first annual Quiz Night with our very own Roberta Koscielny donning her best Vanna White inspired sparked dress! It was such a hit that there will be a second annual event this year. In transplant news, The Kidney Paired Program hit a fantastic milestone of 1,000 transplants. Well Done! The signupforlife.ca organ and tissue donor registry logged 1,000 new registrations in 2024, bringing the total number of registrations since the launch of the registry in 2012 to more than 71,000 ! Manitoba's many community partners such as blood.ca and Transplant Manitoba-Gift of Life continue their work to raise organ and tissue donor awareness. 2024 statistics are not yet in however, 2023 saw a total number of multi organ deceased donors in Manitoba of 30. Specifically, there were 11 lung, 83 kidney, 16 liver and three heart transplants. These transplants could not happen without organ and tissue donors who register. Our news section includes a wide variety of health, wellness and research articles. We have also dedicated a page for the Manitoba Organ and Tissue Task Force which you will find at the top of our home page. You will also find updated information and news articles important to heart transplant recipients and their families and friends. News that can impact and enhance our lives!
Heart Transplant Stories
Heart Transplant Stories
Do you find yourself spending an increased amount of time at home, whether it be by working remotely or maybe retired? This can be a great opportunity to write your transplant story to share here. You can contact any board member and we will be happy to help you if you wish for assistance in putting your thoughts to paper. As heart transp
Do you find yourself spending an increased amount of time at home, whether it be by working remotely or maybe retired? This can be a great opportunity to write your transplant story to share here. You can contact any board member and we will be happy to help you if you wish for assistance in putting your thoughts to paper. As heart transplant recipients, we are a unique group. As individuals we each experience our own journey through heart failure to transplant and living post transplant differently. If you are a heart transplant recipient, on the transplant list, or living with heart failure we would love to hear from you and share your story here! These stories help connect us as a community.