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A new era has begun for PlusLife, Western Australia’s only bone and tissue bank, with the official opening of its new $10 million new headquarters in Midland today. The new facility was unveiled by Midland MLA Michelle Roberts this morning in a special ceremony involving recipients of bone and tissue donations, their relatives, donor families, […]

Three long-serving directors of the PlusLife board have stepped down from office bearing roles after more than 42 years of collective service to the bone and tissue donation cause. Retired accountant Donal O’Doherty who served on the PlusLife board for 18 years, including as treasurer, has resigned as a board director. Retired microbiologist and philanthropist

PlusLife’s new state-of-the-art bone and tissue bank in Midland has been crowned Western Australia’s best industrial building in the Master Builders Excellence in Construction Awards. The prestigious award for the Best Industrial Building ($5 million to $10 million) was presented to Balcatta builder PS Structures at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre on Saturday night.

Staff from WA’s bone and tissue bank, PlusLife, have donated a new bicycle to a young Hamersley girl stricken by cancer as an infant after constructing the bike as part of a team-building development day. The Midland-based team, which manages life-changing bone and tissue donations, built the bike as part of a series of group

PlusLife has encouraged West Australians who have received life-changing bone and tissue donations to pay tribute to their donors by writing a letter of thanks today on DonateLife Thank You Day. The national awareness day acknowledges the selfless contributions of tissue and organ donors, and the important role families play in transforming lives through the

Staff from WA’s bone and tissue bank, PlusLife, have donated bicycles to young children stricken by cancer after constructing them as part of a team-building development day. The Midland-based team, which manages life-changing bone and tissue donations, unwittingly built the bikes as part of a series of group challenges last week before surprise presentations to

Western Australia’s only bone and tissue bank, PlusLife, has expanded its life-changing service to the state’s south-west. The Midland-based not-for-profit, which manages bone and tissue donations in WA, has opened its bone retrieval program for patients undergoing hip replacement surgery at St John of God Bunbury Hospital and Bunbury Regional Hospital. Under the program, people

Are you one of Western Australia’s 5800 potential life changers? PlusLife, WA’s only bone and tissue bank, is encouraging patients about to undergo total hip replacement surgery to consider signing up as bone and tissue donors to help make life- changing differences to others. This week is DonateLife Week 2021, Australia’s national awareness week to

Hal Boronovskis has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of PlusLife. Today’s announcement comes as current PlusLife Managing Director Anne Cowie prepares to retire after 28 years at the helm of Western Australia’s only bone and tissue bank. Since starting as the founding staff member of PlusLife in 1993, Mrs Cowie has steered the