ADVISORY/Emmy Award-Winning Jackee Harry and Actor Larry Hagman Join St. Vincent Medical Center in Celebrating National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week April 16-21, 2001.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday (April 18)

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WHO:     Emmy Award-winning actress Jackee Harry, and actor and liver
         transplant recipient Larry Hagman join St. Vincent Medical
         Center to host a Multi-Organ Transplant Program Luncheon in
         celebration of National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness
         Week. The luncheon will be attended by hospital doctors,
         officials, local elected officials and dignitaries,
         government representatives, One Legacy representatives
         (formerly known as the Southern California's Organ
         Procurement Center), organ and tissue recipients, donors and
         friends and family members of the donors.

WHEN:    Wednesday, April 18, 2001
         11:30 a.m.

WHERE:   St. Vincent Medical Center Campus
         S. Mark Taper Foundation Transplant Center Lawn
         2200 West 3rd Street
         Los Angeles, CA 90057 (corner of 3rd Street and Alvarado)

WHAT:    In conjunction with National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness
         Week April 16-21, St. Vincent Medical Center (SVMC), in Los
         Angeles, will host a Multi-Organ Transplant Program Luncheon
         with transplant doctors, patients, family and friends of
         recipients and donors. Specialists in the field of
         transplantation will explain what can be done to alleviate
         the national organ and tissue shortage.

WHY:     Over 75,000 Americans are waiting for a life-saving
         transplant. Every day, 16 people registered on the national
         transplant waiting list die awaiting a life-saving organ --
         that's 5,824 Americans every year! As a nationally recognized
         center for multi-organ transplantation, St. Vincent Medical
         Center is committed to educating the community about this
         critical situation, and to continuing to provide
         state-of-the-art transplantation procedures to the Los
         Angeles community.