Saint Louis University Hospital’s abdominal organ transplant program was ranked among the 50 most active renal transplant centers in the U.S. for 2007, according to Nephrology News & Issues (NN&I). In 2006, SLU Hospital performed 109 kidney and/or kidney-pancreas transplants, which is an increase of more than 25 percent from 2005.
This is the first national ranking for the hospital’s abdominal organ transplant program. NN&I tabulated 2006 data provided by the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and published the annual listing in its January 2008 issue. “We are incredibly pleased to receive this national recognition,” said Judy Hoff, director of transplant services at Saint Louis University Hospital. “Our transplant team is dedicated to continuously delivering quality patient care with successful outcomes.”
SLU Hospital offers one of the most comprehensive abdominal organ transplant programs in the country. The transplant team, which includes specially trained nurses, patient care coordinators and SLUCare physicians, provides medical care for patients with end-stage organ failure requiring liver, kidney, kidney-pancreas, and/or isolated pancreas transplantation. The team also has extensive experience in hepatobiliary system diseases and pancreatic disorders in non-transplant patients.
The hospital’s transplant department is located on the fifth floor and features 18 rooms for patient care coordinators, social workers, a bone marrow unit, charting area, consultation rooms, financial consultants and a conference room. For more information about SLU Hospital’s transplant services, please call 1-866-993-HOPE (4673). About Saint Louis University Hospital Saint Louis University Hospital is a 356-licensed bed quaternary/tertiary referral center located in the heart of the city of St. Louis.
Approximately 75 percent of our patients are drawn from a 150-mile radius of the hospital, and the rest come to us from outside this 150-mile area. Through our affiliation as the teaching hospital for Saint Louis University, we provide our patients and their families with an environment of medical innovation. We are smaller than most major academic medical centers, which allows our physicians and staff the chance to know our patients and their families better. Working with us in this endeavor are our medical staff partners, SLUCare, the physicians of Saint Louis University.
The hospital admits more than 17,000 patients annually, performs more than 200 organ transplants a year and is a Level I Trauma Center that treats more than 2,000 major trauma cases a year.