A Hero With Wings

As we celebrate Donate Life Month, we shine a light on Jessica Turnbough, who was inspired by an organ donation that saved her childhood friend’s life.

First triple-organ transplant of its kind in the state paves the way for lifesaving multiorgan procedures

March 23, 2021

If surgery were gymnastics, a triple-organ transplant would be a feat worthy of the Olympics. It has everything: Complex and intricate procedure? Check.…

UF Health surgeons perform historic double-lung transplant on COVID-19 survivor

July 30, 2020

A man who battled back from COVID-19 only to face a life-threatening crisis when his lungs began to fail has become the first person in the Southeast to…

Eternally intertwined: Husband, widow donate organs to same man 16 years apart

June 18, 2020

In order for there to be a gift of life, there must be a giver. Living donors are more common for some types of transplant procedures, especially kidney…

A perfect match

If the best gift of all is life, then the second-best must be love. Jessica Scoggins and Daniel Sullivan, both transplant recipients, met through their…

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Valentine’s Day is a time for loving, sharing and caring. We know what this means in the romantic sense, but what if there were a more meaningful way to…

First patient receives kidney through Sacred Heart Health System and UF Health collaboration

March 15, 2017

A University of Florida Health transplant surgeon has performed Northwest Florida’s first kidney transplant as part of a collaboration between the…