Jill Marten joined Miami’s Baptist Health South Florida in 2012 as its corporate director of human resources. Outside of her work at Baptist Health South Florida, Jill Marten supports the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

2.  Jill Marten joined Miami’s Baptist Health South Florida
in 2012 as its corporate director of human resources.
Outside of her work at Baptist Health South Florida, Jill
Marten supports the Life Alliance Organ Recovery
Agency at the University of Miami Miller School of
Medicine.
The Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency (LAORA) is
a critical tool for patients in need of lifesaving organ
transplants. In order to pair these patients with
donors, the agency implements several strategies.
Aggressively and intelligently pursuing each and
every transplant opportunity is the foundation to the
LAORA approach.

3.  The number of opportunities for organ and
tissue donations can be maximized at various
organizations and medical institutions through
the immediate deployment of recovery
resources and careful evaluation of every
organ that may have the potential for donor
status. An organization can further improve its
rate of success with regard to organ donation
by reviewing death records.
Expedience is another strategy LAORA
encourages at the hospitals and organizations
with which it has partnered.

4.  The donation process should begin long
before brain death becomes official, as
approaching a potential donor’s family is
a delicate matter that can take a
considerable amount of time. The
donation process can be streamlined,
according to LAORA, if medical
organizations assign specific roles to staff
members when it comes to the donation
process.