{"id":122384,"date":"2020-07-09T12:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T22:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=122384"},"modified":"2020-09-11T08:39:25","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T18:39:25","slug":"willed-body-program-covid-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/07\/09\/willed-body-program-covid-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Willed Body Program pauses donor acceptances"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_94921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94921\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-jabsom-willed-body-program.jpg\" alt=\"medical students waiving from canoes\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-94921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-jabsom-willed-body-program.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-jabsom-willed-body-program-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/manoa-jabsom-willed-body-program-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medical students wave to mourners offshore after scattering ashes of body donors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Due to the <abbr title=\"coronavirus 2019\">COVID-19<\/abbr> pandemic, the <a href=\"https:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/donors\/willedbody\/\">Willed Body Program<\/a> at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> will temporarily stop accepting donors from Monday, September 14, until further notice. <\/p>\n<p>Donors who have already signed contracts with the program are being notified to look for alternative arrangements at this time. If a donor dies  during this temporary closure, loved ones or other appropriate individual(s) are kindly asked to notify the program. <\/p>\n<p>Through the Willed Body Program, first-year medical students are introduced to their silent teachers in anatomy classes. The first thing they learn is how the body is to be treated with respect and to appreciate the opportunity the donor provides. <\/p>\n<p>For questions or more information, call the Willed Body Program at (808) 692-1445 or email <a href=\"mailto:wbdonor@hawaii.edu\">wbdonor@hawaii.edu<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donors who have already signed contracts with the program are being notified to look for alternative arrangements at this time<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1411,31,9],"class_list":["post-122384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-covid-19","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126848,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122384\/revisions\/126848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}