LifeCord recognizes NGMC for 'mutual miracles'

By Staff

Posted 5:06PM on Friday 5th December 2014 ( 10 years ago )

GAINESVILLE - When mothers deliver at Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC), they have the opportunity to participate in mutual miracles: giving birth and providing life-saving blood to someone in need. <br /> <br /> At a noontime ceremony at the hospital Friday, LifeCord Cord Blood Bank recognized NGMC for its life-saving efforts to provide cord blood to patients fighting life threatening diseases around the world. LifeCord has shipped six units for transplant that were collected by the staff at NGMC. <br /> <br /> The celebration included a plaque unveiling and recognition of the hospital and staff's efforts to collect a record 1,311 donations for the year

Yesi Sevilla, director of LifeCord, presents staff members at Northeast Georgia Medical Center with a special plaque honoring their efforts to increase cord blood donations to help others in need.

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