Medal of Honor
Department of Health and Human Services

In October 2006, St. John's Mercy Medical Center and Mid-America Transplant Services (MTS) were awarded Medals of Honor from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services at the Second Annual Learning Congress for helping to achieve organ-donation consent rates at or above 75 percent. These medals recognize the hard work and commitment on the part of many individuals who have dedicated themselves to enhancing the entire process of organ and tissue donation, from actual consent by donor families to post-donation support for both families and transplant recipients. The Medals of Honor are one element of the Organ Donation Breakthrough Collaborative, two highly successful national initiatives to increase organ-donation rates in the nation's largest hospitals.