CONWAY — April is America’s National Donate Life Month, and last Friday, April 10, was National Donate Life Blue & Green Day, designed to promote the importance of registering as an organ, eye and tissue donor.
This was the fifth year in a row that MaineHealth Memorial Hospital’s Clinical Educator Marta Ramsey and Clinical Educator/Nursing Coordinator Erin Power have organized a local Blue and Green Day.
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