Dakota Lions Sight & Health Encouraging Participation in “DoNation”
Dakota Lions Sight & Health is proud to participate in DoNation, the national campaign uniting America’s workforce for organ, eye, and tissue donation.
Dakota Lions Sight & Health, Monument Health Launch Birth Tissue Donation Program
Monument Health and Dakota Lions Sight and Health (DLSH) are introducing a birth tissue donation program at Monument Health Rapid City Hospital. The program will coordinate the donation and collection of birth tissue including amniotic membranes and umbilical cords.
Dakota Lions Sight & Health Partners with Avera to Offer South Dakota’s first Birth Tissue Donation Program
Dakota Lions Sight & Health (DLSH), the only eye and tissue donation organization based in the Dakotas, has partnered with Avera to bring the first birth tissue donation program to South Dakota.
Dakota Lions Sight & Health Partners with Avera to Offer South Dakota’s first Birth Tissue Donation Program
Dakota Lions Sight & Health (DLSH), the only eye and tissue donation organization based in the Dakotas, has partnered with Avera to bring the first birth tissue donation program to South Dakota.
Rapid City Ophthalmologist Got His Start at the Eye Bank
Rapid City-born Colin Brown spent his childhood on a cattle ranch in Northwestern South Dakota and later in Pierre. He knew from an early age that healthcare was his calling, although he had not yet zeroed in on ophthalmology.
Cornea Donations During the Coronavirus Crisis
While the world continues to adjust to the new normal caused by the onset of coronavirus, Dakota Lions Sight & Health has also had to adapt.
As Unique as a Thumbprint
In their mission to ‘enable the restoration of the gifts of sight and health’, grief is something the professionals at Dakota Lions Sight and Health inevitably encounter. As the region’s long-standing eye and tissue bank, DLSH provides a host of resources intended to support donor families after the loss of a loved one.
Dakota Lions Sight and Health + LifeSource
This Spring, Dakota Lions Sight and Health (DLSH), the Sioux Falls-based tissue and eye donation organization, and LifeSource, an organ, eye, and tissue donation organization based in Minneapolis announced a new partnership.
Dakota Lions Sight & Health Takes the Pressure Off Surgeons with Advanced, Time-Saving Procedure
This winter, Dakota Lions Sight and Health in Sioux Falls became one of just a few elite eye banks in the country to begin offering pre-loaded corneal tissue for transplant surgery. In this new, advanced procedure, a DLSH lab technician removes the cornea cells from the donor tissue, prepares the Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) graft, and loads it into a Straiko Modified Jones Tube for transfer to the clinic.
Dakota Lions Sight & Health Takes the Pressure Off Surgeons with Advanced, Time-Saving Procedure
This winter, Dakota Lions Sight and Health in Sioux Falls became one of just a few elite eye banks in the country to begin offering pre-loaded corneal tissue for transplant surgery. In this new, advanced procedure, a DLSH lab technician removes the cornea cells from the donor tissue, prepares the Descemet Membrane Endothelial Keratoplasty (DMEK) graft, and loads it into a Straiko Modified Jones Tube for transfer to the clinic.