Hospital North Bay 3 2014

 

Some new stats when it comes to organ donation locally and across the province.

Officials with the Trillium Gift of Life Network say 38 Ontario hospitals either maintained or improved the rate at which they notify the network of a potential organ or tissue donor.

The notification rate was 97 percent at the North Bay Regional Health Centre while the conversion rate was 50 percent.

Conversion rate indicates the number of potential donors that actually went on to save lives through organ donation.

Meantime, North Bay continues to hold down the number five spot in Ontario in terms of registered donors at 53 percent.

The top 4 communities are in the Greater Sudbury area.