Welcome all transplant candidates, recipients, recipient family members, living donors and donor family members!
Welcome all transplant candidates, recipients, recipient family members, living donors and donor family members!
Officially formed in May of 1988, New Hearts Transplant Support Group is a 501(c)3 non-profit, all volunteer organization, incorporated in Nebraska. Our members include transplant recipients and their families, transplant candidates or potential candidates, donor families, medical personnel, social workers, clergy and others interested in transplantation and promoting donor awareness.
Although our name is New Hearts, this group serves people with all types of organ and tissue transplants—heart, lung, liver, pancreas, kidney, small bowel and cornea. As one liver recipient said, “Anyone who receives the chance of a transplant receives, in a sense, a New Heart, regardless of organ or tissue—a new outlook, a new opportunity, a new life.”
We offer the opportunity to meet and share with other transplant families, to learn important transplant-related information from our guest speakers, to honor donors and their families, and to promote donor awareness in the community. And, we’re a fun group, grateful for the Gift of Life!
Membership in New Hearts Transplant Support Group is open to any person interested in furthering the goals of the organization. That includes people who have just found out they may need a transplant, people on the waiting list, transplant recipients (all organs and tissues, not just hearts!), recipient and donor family members, healthcare professionals and others interested in promoting donor awareness.
Meetings or activities are usually conducted monthly (except June and July), and we communicate regularly through emails.
There are no membership dues or fees.
Operating funds for the group come from the sales of T-shirts and other items with a variety of designs and “Donate Life Nebraska” or New Hearts logo. Proceeds from the sale of these items and any donations or memorials are used to sponsor donor awareness activities, provide information and handouts at our booths and events, honor donor families, provide small patient grants and cover miscellaneous operating expenses. For ordering information, contact Mary Kay Thieman at 402-598-6766 or by email at NebraskaNewHearts@gmail.com.
New Hearts primary function as a transplant support group is to provide a support service for patients who are both in the pre- and post- transplant process. New Hearts support services include:
New Hearts is engaged in the local community and provides education services:
To provide moral support and information to pre- and post-transplant families;
To promote public awareness of the success of transplants and the growing need for organ and tissue donors; and
To honor donor families.
If you or your family member has had a transplant, we’d love to have you join us! If we can help support a family you know that may be facing a transplant, or if you would like more information on organ donation from the very positive perspective of a recipient, please call any of our officers listed below. We will be very happy to help you in any way possible.
New Hearts Officers
President:
Missy McCool (heart recipient)
402-206-5708
Vice President/Program Chair:
Shirley Kramer (heart recipient)
402-639-9525
Secretary:
Lisa Carmichael (heart recipient)
402-905-8077
Treasurer:
Mary Kay Thieman (recipient family)
402-598-6766
Past President:
Vicki Showell (Manager, Team Nebraska)
402-676-8757
If you would like to be added to our email newsgroup, send your email address to Lisa Carmichael at NebraskaNewHearts@gmail.com.
For general questions or information, email us at NebraskaNewHearts@gmail.com.
Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals of providing a support service for patients who are both in the pre- and post- transplant process.
