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Recipients of heart transplants reunite at Penn State Hershey Medical Center

DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Dozens of people who have received new hearts over the years gathered for a reunion at Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Since 1984...

DERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Dozens of people who have received new hearts over the years gathered for a reunion at Penn State Hershey Medical Center.

Since 1984, the hospital has performed 477 heart transplants. 12 of those happened last year, including to John Mudge, from Lewisberry, York County. He says he is grateful to those who have donated their organs.

"It's truly a blessing. I'm very grateful to my donor and my donor family for allowing me to have the heart," he says. "It is bittersweet, because somebody had to pass to do that. You go through those feelings, but it's a wonderful thing to be able to help somebody else."

Penn State Hershey Medical Center is the only hospital in Central Pennsylvania that performs heart transplants.

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