Every April, The Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) celebrates National Donate Life month by planting eight-spoked scarlet and grey pinwheels. An eight-spoked pinwheel represents the represents how one donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation (heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, pancreas, and intestines). Each pinwheel represents the lives saved by organ donation…

Lifeline of Ohio’s annual Candlelight Ceremony is held during April, National Donate Life Month. The ceremony honors donor heroes and their families, transplant recipients who have received the gift of life and can live on because of those heroes, and those still waiting on the transplant list in hope. It is a time when the…