The National Kidney Foundation Observes National Donate Life Month in April
~ Siblings Giving the Gift of Life on National Siblings Day
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Saturday,
April 10
th is National Siblings Day! The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) celebrates this important month and day by sharing critical information about living kidney donation as well as honoring National Siblings Day by highlighting inspiring stories of siblings throughout the month who have given the gift of life to a loved one.
The availability of living donors is crucial to the survival of many kidney patients with kidney failure. Patients might wait an average of three to seven years for a kidney transplant depending on where the patient lives. Each day 12 patients die waiting for a kidney. Living donation was responsible for a total of 5,726 transplants in 2020, a decrease of 22.6 percent over the record 7,397 living donor transplants set in 2019. When a living donor, family member or sibling
Pall Corporation Expands Global Production Capacity
Major capacity expansion underway to support increase in industry demand
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PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Pall Corporation, a global leader in filtration, separation and purification, continues to increase capacity to meet industry demands driven by COVID-19 with a new manufacturing facility in Spartanburg County, South Carolina and the shareholder acquisition of Pall-Austar Lifesciences Limited, a China-based joint-venture. The Spartanburg County, South Carolina facility is part of a $114M investment which also includes production capacity expansion at seven existing Pall manufacturing facilities across the United States and Europe.
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LAKE SAINT LOUIS, Mo., April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ In 2020, 24 million people were enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services projects this number will increase to more than 26 million this year a figure that will only continue growing as more Baby Boomers qualify for Medicare and secure supplemental coverage. With steady enrollment growth and a focus on expanding benefits, now is the time to set your plan apart and accelerate membership expansion.
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As members age, their access to transportation may become more limited. Recent studies show that as many as one third of Medicare members report facing transportation insecurity. This barrier could cause them to miss or delay medical care. Insurers offering MA plans have a unique opportunity to differentiate themselves in a major way: by offering a non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) benefit that is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest
The Invictus Foundation s Welcome Home Network Achieves Its Decade Long Goal of a National Footprint
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SEATTLE, April 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Invictus Foundation now has an operating footprint in all eight regions of the Country. Its Welcome Home Networks encompass fifty states. The organization stands ready and prepared to serve its active-duty military, veterans and their families across the Nation.
If We Send Them We Must Mend Them It has been a decade since I began the Invictus Foundation, said Peter J. Whalen, Founder and CEO of the Invictus Foundation™. I began it with this bedrock understanding and belief. That for those of us that have experienced the crucible of war that it has a profound impact both physically and emotionally on those men and women we send to fight in them on this Nation s behalf. When I say profound, I am talking about decades not years. It is a fundamental truth that most Americans cannot