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HeartLinks Manitoba held its annual summer picnic on Saturday, June 7th, 2025! Please visit our events page to see pictures and read details.
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 w
HeartLinks Manitoba held its annual summer picnic on Saturday, June 7th, 2025! Please visit our events page to see pictures and read details.
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!
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. In 2024, there were 2 heart transplants, 74 kidney transplants by both deceased and living donors, 14 lung transplants and 23 liver transplants. We as a group of grateful organ recipients will continue in doing our part to spread organ and tissue donor awareness to maintain and increase these statistics!
Health/Information News and 2024 Transplant Manitoba Wrap up
Transplant Manitoba has many volunteers who love to raise organ and tissue donor awareness. Volunteers donned hats, applied sunscreen and got their gardening tools ready to plant the Garden of Life again this year in Assiniboine Park's English garden. It is now on full display should you find yourself in the park, please pay the garden a
Transplant Manitoba has many volunteers who love to raise organ and tissue donor awareness. Volunteers donned hats, applied sunscreen and got their gardening tools ready to plant the Garden of Life again this year in Assiniboine Park's English garden. It is now on full display should you find yourself in the park, please pay the garden a visit! Other ways in which they help are during National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week (NOTDAW). Volunteers also show up for Comicon Winnipeg in an effort to reach the larger community about organ donor awareness. The second annual Quiz Night was held on April 9th with a house full of teams. HeartLinks Manitoba was represented with two teams, Formula 1 and All Heart. Formula 1 took home bragging rights as highest scoring team. Team spirit and amazing costumes made for a creative and fun evening. We can't wait for next year! 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 celebrated its second annual Quiz night last week. It was a fun evening of trivia and some challenging rounds too! HeartLinks Manitoba was represented by two teams, Formula 1 and All Heart. Congratulations to Formula 1 as the top team of the evening. Team spirit and costumes rounded out a fun and lively night! 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.