{"id":774,"date":"2011-12-09T04:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=774"},"modified":"2011-12-27T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T18:13:30","slug":"ambulance-services-helping-to-make-the-gift-of-life-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/ambulance-services-helping-to-make-the-gift-of-life-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Aetna Ambulance a Vital Link in Making Organ Donation Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-775 alignleft\" title=\"LifeChoice Donor Services Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/life.png\" alt=\"LifeChoice Donor Services and Aetna Ambulance are partners\" width=\"215\" height=\"79\" \/><strong>The following is an excerpt of an email message from LifeChoice:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This patient&#8217;s family was very uplifted that he was able to be a donor and found great comfort knowing that he was able to continue to help others in death as he had in life.\u00a0 This could not have been possible without the involvement of <strong>EMS <\/strong>(<strong>Aetna Ambulance<\/strong>, in referenced case) when a patient codes at home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->Their stead fast commitment to providing the best of care to all pts has helped an additional 50+ people! What a Christmas present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[As a paramedic] I know that I sometimes felt like a failure when the patient was pronounced in the ED.\u00a0 This job has made me realize that even when our best efforts to revive a patient don\u2019t work there is still the possibility that the patient&#8217;s \u2018life\u2019 and legacy goes on through others in a very meaningful way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">-Donna Crombez CTBS, BA, EMT-P,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifechoiceopo.org\/\">LifeChoice Donor Services<\/a><\/strong>, Donation Coordinator<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Organ donation is a difficult topic. If you have an opinion or experience, we encourage you to comment on this post. (Comments are subject to moderation).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of an email message from LifeChoice: &#8220;This patient&#8217;s family was very uplifted that he was able to be a donor and found great comfort knowing that he was able to continue to help others in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/ambulance-services-helping-to-make-the-gift-of-life-possible\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,53,41,46],"tags":[22,136,135,133,134],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":811,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}