The State - News from April 5, 1988

A baby girl, born with most of her brain missing, was placed in a Loma Linda University Medical Center program to preserve her heart and liver for possible transplant. Hope Lovette Mount of Tennessee arrived at the medical center in San Bernardino County after a flight in an especially staffed jet, a hospital spokeswoman said. Hope is the sixth live-born infant the hospital has accepted under a controversial program that established the nation’s first guidelines for sustaining anencephalic children on life-support systems so that their organs can be used in transplants. Such children suffer slow deterioration that so far has made their major organs unsuitable for transplant.