Anatomic Gift Foundation Inc.

“James s. Bardsley jr brenda m bardsley president vp family relationship james s. Bardsley jr corinne bell president treasurer family relationship james s. Bardsley jr james s. Bardsley iii president cso family relationship brenda m. Bardsley james s. Bardsley iii vp cso family relationship”

“All members of the governing body received a copy of the 990 to review and comment upon prior to filing.”

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“The anatomic gift foundation, inc., (agf) d/b/a anatomy gifts registry and cremation center of maryland, is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3), organization founded in 1994. The mission of agfs caring and compassionate program is to serve meritorious research scientists, clinicians, and medical educators with expertly prepared, safe, and efficacious, human anatomical specimens gifted from donors and donor families participating in our whole body donor program. Agf also serves the donors and their families by providing services relating to the donation process; including, but not limited to: obtaining informed consent/authorization for donation within established legal hierarchy, acquiring vital statistic information for purposes of filing a death certificate, transportation of the deceased from the place of death to our facility, perform cremations and provide ashes to the family (for their memento, internment, scattering), resources regarding grief counseling, etc.”

“Ii. Major accomplishments in 2018: a. Agf maintained its accreditation by the american association of tissue banks (aatb) as a non-transplant donation organization upon passing our on-site every three year cycle accreditation inspection; with a level a designation. B. Four of our managers passed their certification exams and received their certified tissue bank specialist (ctbs) designation in 2018. C. All staff who were due to submit their certified tissue bank specialist (ctbs) continuing education units (ceu)s to re-certify with aatb in year 2018 have done so and have kept their certification. D. Agf maintained its new york license as a non-transplant anatomic bank. E. Agf was inspected by the maryland board of morticians and found to be in compliance with regulations for operating a crematory; as well as for mortuary transporters. F. Agf passed all safety and environmental inspections by various entities, i.e., fire marshall, maryland department of environment (both air & radiation), etc. G. Agf has continued its quality systems; which include regular auditing and reporting of findings. H. Agf has had increases in number of donors and donor families served, increases in types of services provided, and increases in number of clients served; without a net increase in staff numbers. Iii. 2018 statistics: a. Donors: 1. There were a total of 1497 donors in 2018 (an increase of 104 donors over 2017; and a repeated increase of 7% from the year before). 2. 41.3% of the donors were again from agfs home state of maryland in 2018 (a 5.7% decrease from 2017. See equivalent/off-setting increase in donors from surrounding states.) 3. 35.3 % were from neighboring states (a 5.8% increase over last year) 4. Approximately 21.7% were from states out of the region; where donor transportation costs are most high. (a 1.8% decrease over last year) 5. Note: we also took calls and reviewed medical records for an additional 311 un-registered deceased persons whose next-of-kin wanted to donate them after their death; but were not accepted as a donor due to presence of contagious disease in the medical histories or due to unacceptable condition. B. Future donors: in 2018, an additional 1246 applicants (representing an overall 9% increase from that in 2017) were pre-registered with agf to be future donors (974 being people signing up using first person/willed and 272 future donors needing authorization after death. The breakdown by location was 449 for maryland (a 2% decrease), 468 regional (a 23% increase), and 329 out-of-area (3% increase); providing their medical & social information; as well as vital statistics information for death certificates, etc. Many were willed / first-person consent cases; while others (who are not able to make that decision due to noted cognitive disabilities (like dementia, brain tumor with memory problems, etc.) will require next-of-kin / poa authorization at the time of death. We were unable to accept 14 (50% less than 2017) donor candidates at the time of applying as a donor candidate, due to a variety of reasons; but mainly due to contagious disease history. We also rejected 107 donors that were previously registered; but review of current medical information made them ineligible (69 of which was due to the arkansas mass cancelation due to changing regulations in the state for transport of the deceased). At the conclusion of 2018, agf was maintaining files for (9139- a 3% increase from 2017) non-willed future donor cases and (21,006 a 5% increase from 2017) willed body donor cases for a combined total of 30,145 pre-registered donors (a 4% increase from 2017). Some have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and most others are merely planning for a future eventuality. This information is reviewed, cataloged and entered into our database for future retrieval, to assist the families at the time of death. Donor and family services coordinator staff contact our registered future donors every few years to update their med”

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