Sumner is first Donate Life County in the nation
June 21, 2022
Tennessee Donor Services (TDS), the nonprofit responsible for recovering organs for transplant across Tennessee, recently announced that Sumner County is the nation’s first Donate Life County.
Sumner becomes first Tennessee county to be organ donor support community
June 21, 2022
One county’s just taken on a very different kind of title — one that makes it the first of its kind in Tennessee.
History in the making: Sumner County designated nation’s first-ever Donate Life County
June 17, 2022
More than 100,000 men, women and children are currently on the national transplant waiting list, according to organdonor.gov – including about 3,000 in Tennessee.
“Your son is in kidney failure, oh he’s only got one kidney“ | Newport teen in need of a kidney donor
June 8, 2022
Life was normal for 19-year-old Patrick Scott Velez, and then he found out he was born with only one kidney and that it was failing.