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 accomplishment in 2020: 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. Agf senior staff-members have donated their time as member participants in various organizations and projects in the furtherance non-transplant anatomic donation (nado) and medical education communities; including but not limited to: aatb (nado council, education committee, membership committee, educational webinar presenter), association for bioskills laboratory excellence (able: board member, guidance document committee, membership committee), 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 2020 have done so and have kept their certification. D. Agf maintained its new york license as a non-transplant anatomic bank. E. Agf maintained its licenses & permits by the maryland board of morticians 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. Iii. 2020 statistics: a. Donors 1. There was a total of 1260 donors in 2020 (representing an overall 27% decrease from that in 2019) due to the pandemic. Local, state and federal health department advice & individuals concerns for potential infection, there were severe restrictions (gathering size, inter-state travel, etc.) placed on the number of medical education training sessions. Agf enacted covid-19 screening and testing protocols and kept up with breaking news in a quickly evolving pandemic. To keep pace with this drastic reduction in clients needs, agf reduced its coverage area to its home state of maryland. Many potential donors who either contracted covid-19, had symptoms without a negative test or had direct contact with someone infected with covid-19 were not accepted; regardless of geographic area. B. Future donors: in 2020 we continued to accept applications to be pre- registered with agf to be future donors. 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 medical records and next-of-kin contact information. C. Tissue placement & use: 1. 4,554 specimens were placed in 2020 2. In-house specimen use: the large reduction in all types of labs was due to the covid-19 pandemic. From the months of march 2020 to may 2020 our bioskills lab was shut down in order to limit staff contact with other people. Additionally, many of our clients were not looking to hold any training events for the safety of their employees. 3. A total of 141 specimens were used on site with our in-house bioskills lab facility: we hosted and provided specimens for 48 lab sessions in 2020, serving hundreds of learners. The breakdown by type was: a. Physician / surgeon training: 11 sessions (7 less than 2019) b. Rescue / life-saving / ems training (anatomy and procedure practicum labs): 28 sessions (2 less than 2019). C. Student /anatomy and procedure practicum lab events (includes high school level, college level and physician assistant education sessions): with a total of 9 labs in this genre (60 less than 2019). The large reduction in all types of labs was due to the covid-19 pandemic. From the months of march 2020 to may 2020 our bioskills lab was shut down in order to limit staff contact with other people. Additionally, many of our clients were not looking to hold any training events for the safety of their employees. Iv. Program initiatives that assist the organization to meet or”

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