Love is the hallmark of Valentine’s Day, which is fitting because it’s also National Donor Day. And perhaps there’s no greater act of love than the gift of life. It is what a Florida couple says they received in Cleveland and are forever grateful.

Ronni Whitehead received the gift of a lifetime this holiday season; she got the new lungs she’d been hoping and waiting more than four long years to receive. On Dec. 7, 2022, Whitehead underwent surgery at Cleveland Clinic

Transplant House of Cleveland in Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood is preparing to celebrate its fifth anniversary July 20 and welcomed a new board member ahead of its Transplant House of Cleveland Cares 5K Run/Walk June 9.

Last July, Mona Kernagis and her husband, Tony, were in Cleveland for evaluation and preparation for Mona’s lung transplant at Cleveland Clinic.

During the dizzying, anxiety-fraught schedule of consultations with specialists and tests, the Valparaiso, Indiana, couple came across a brochure for a University Circle nonprofit organization called Transplant House of Cleveland.

Elaine Turley, Executive Director of the Transplant House of Cleveland, and Doug Doss, liver donor and transplant house resident, join us today to discuss how The Transplant House of Cleveland provides affordable, temporary housing for organ transplant patients and their families.