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Volume 3, No. 17
Off-Duty Pasadena Firefighter Saves Long Beach Doctor’s Life By Terry Miller
Now a successful heart transplant recipient and leading transplant advocate, Ava is the founder of Ava’s Heart, the only nonprofit in the United States that provides extensive support for transplant patients and their families pre-and-post life-saving organ transplants.
Also an ambassador of the Donate Life organi-
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The Long Beach doctor, who specializes in Nephrology (study of kidneys), was given CPR February 26 after suffering a cardiac arrest while working out at a Long Beach Gym. A former Washington Redskins football player,
now a Pasadena paramedic/ firefighter, just happened to be working out at the same gym when he saw Dr. Warner collapse. What happened next is that a sea of people started to try to help Dr. Warner but paramedic Manuel White knew exactly what to do:
“My training automatically kicked in … it was like an out-of-body experience … I took charge of the situation and told the others assisting that I was a paramedic/firefighter.” White took over, giving
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‘Ava’s Heart’ Stresses the Magnitude of Life-Saving Organ Transplants
Ava Kaufman was healthy, vibrant and full of life one day; the next, she was going to die unless she received a new heart.
Dr. Allen Warner asked media at Pasadena Fire Station 32 Saturday afternoon, “How do you possibly thank someone for saving your life …?” With tears in his bright blue eyes, the Long Beach doctor was moments away from meeting the very man who saved his life in Febru-
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zation, Ava often speaks to captivated audiences about her powerful story and the need to raise awareness about the notoften-talked-about aspects of organ transplant.
Most recently, Ava had the honor of representing Donate Life and Ava’s Heart at a Glendale city council meeting during which Mayor Zareh Sinanyan proclaimed April to be 'DMV/Donate Life California Month.' While there, Ava shared some details of Please see page 3
Rep. Schiff “Deeply Disappointed” Obama Won’t Use the Word ‘Genocide’ to Describe the 100th Anniversary
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Nurses Just Say No to CNA Unionization of Huntington Memorial Hospital
CEO Steve Ralph sent out the following memo e mail last night: “The National Labor Relations Board tonight counted the ballots in the election to determine whether CNA/NNU would become the certified bargaining representative for Huntington Hospital nurses. Unfortunately, we do not have a final result to share with you this evening. The vote count was: •Votes cast against CNA/NNU representation (“No” votes): 539 •Votes cast for CNA/ NNU representation (“Yes” votes): 445 •Challenged ballots: 175 Because of the number of challenged ballots, the result cannot be determined without resolving the challenged ballots.
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What happens now? The NLRB will make a determination on the challenged ballots. In this process, the side that challenged the ballot has to provide a legitimate legal reason for the challenge. Once the NLRB decides which challenged nurses are eligible to vote, those
ballots are opened, separated from the envelopes and counted as a group by the NLRB. The hospital also is assessing additional steps. Both sides have one week to file objections to the election. The hospital will object to any conduct by CNA/ NNU leading up to and dur-
ing the election that was illegal, or intended to intimidate or harass voters. When will we get a result? Until the NLRB investigates and rules on the challenges and objections, if any, the election results will not be official. We cannot say exactly how long this will take. We are just as eager as you are to see it resolved. I will let you know as soon as decisions are made. What should we do in the meantime? In the meantime, I would ask that we all conduct ourselves according to our values of respect, integrity and excellence. Our focus and commitment should be, as always, on providing safe, high quality care for our patients and support for each other. Thank you. -Steve”
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Rep. Adam Schiff (DCA), the lead sponsor of the Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Resolution in Congress, released the following statement after the White House confirmed to Armenian-American community leaders that the President would not use the word genocide when he issues a statement Friday on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide:
“I’m deeply disappointed that the President, once again, will fail to properly describe the extermination of 1.5 million Armenians from 1915 to 1923 for what it was – genocide. How long must the victim's and their families wait before our nation has the courage to con-
front Turkey with the truth about the murderous past of the Ottoman Empire? If not this President, who spoke so eloquently and passionately about recognition in the past, whom? If not after one hundred years, when? “The United States has long prided itself for being a beacon of human rights, for speaking out against atrocity, for confronting painful chapters of its own past and that of others. This cannot be squared with a policy of complicity in genocide denial by the President or Congress. Last week, the Pope spoke powerfully of the need to bind the wound that continues to bleed in the absence of recognition – I only wish Washington had been listening.”