Olympic Medical Center was recently honored with the “OR of the Year Award” from LifeNet Health, given to hospitals who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in accommodating LifeNet Health recovery teams.

Pictured here, Lorraine Wall, Chief Nursing Officer/Hospital Chief Operating Officer (at left), and Eric Lewis, Olympic Medical Center Chief Executive Officer, accept the award from Heidi Schaiberger, donor relations account manager at LifeNet Health, at an Aug. 15 board of commissioners meeting.

LifeNet Health is a nonprofit specializing in regenerative medicine and the world’s largest provider of allograft bio-implants and organs for transplantation.

In 2017, Olympic Medical Center had 11 tissue donors. LifeNet Health performed seven of those recoveries using Olympic Medical Center’s operating rooms.

“One donor has the potential to save or enhance the lives of 150 people,” Schaiberger said. “With access to Olympic Medical Center’s facility to further support the tissue donation process, the seven recoveries performed at Olympic Medical Center in 2017 alone will help support an estimated 1,000 patients in need through tissue transplantation.”

Olympic Medical Center was recognized not only for devotion to helping patients and families in need through medical services, but for also for their role in the donation continuum, OMC officials said.