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Two mature women smile and hold a red kidney-shaped pillow.

Kidney donor & recipient start as strangers, become friends

‘Hallmark doesn’t make a card for this,’ says Sanford Bismarck patient

Mick Garry ⋅ 11 min read

Mom and son in Sanford Health hospital room

Young man receives pastor’s kidney, then mom pays it forward

Jason Anschutz ⋅ 8 min read

Mother uses rocks to tell late son’s story of organ donation

Mick Garry ⋅ 9 min read

Jan Germundson stands next to Ashton Hanson, who received a kidney from Germundson, in his hospital room.

Hometown boy’s plight moves NICU nurse to donate kidney

Jane Thaden Lawson ⋅ 22 min read

don and mark beck smiling on couch

Man receives donated kidney through dialysis friendship

Kay Todd ⋅ 5 min read

Sioux Falls Falls Park

Donate Life month activities at Sanford Health locations

April is Donate Life Month, a time to raise the profile of organ, eye and tissue donation, and the role they can have in improving and saving lives. Numerous events are scheduled as part of the effort, including a very visible display at the namesake of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, home to Sanford Health headquarters. […]

SHN Staff ⋅ 2 min read

donate life flag

Organ donation: Podcast

Organ donation is an important medical topic but often a hard one to discuss with loved ones. April is Donate Life month and a time to raise the profile of organ donation and the role it can have in saving lives. In this program, Jenna Truckenbrod, P.A., Sanford Transplant services and Tammy Davis, living organ donor, […]

Alan Helgeson ⋅ 2 min read

kidney transplant dialysis: Jeff Prins and family laugh over coffee as their 3-year-old makes a funny face.

Kidney transplant, dialysis save life of Minnesota man

Jeff Prins is grateful for the person who chose to be an organ donor and the care of Sanford Health.

SHN Staff ⋅ 5 min read

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