Health Matters at Work

Community Health Charities partners with member charities Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and National Kidney Foundation (NKF) during National Donate Life Month to raise awareness about the importance of becoming a donor. Approximately every four minutes, one person in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer. More than 110,000 men, women and children currently need a life-saving organ transplant, and each day more than 18 people die waiting for one. Donna Eichna, an Inpatient Stem Cell Transplant Coordinator for Inova Fairfax Hospital representing LLS, and Bill Singleton, a long-time NKF volunteer and former board member, talks about the need for organ and bone marrow donors. As a living kidney donor, Mr. Singleton shares a unique message to donors and recipients who await a life-saving organ transplant. Ms. Eichna shares her hands-on experience of working with patients, her knowledge of bone marrow transplantation and how easy it is to become a donor.