Report to the Community

Renal Care and Transplant Advances Are Improving Patient Outcomes

Remarkable advances in kidney transplantation enable us to offer our patients encouragement and good reason for optimism at Saint Mary’s Kidney Transplant Center. Our specialists have performed more than 1,000 transplants since the Center’s inception in 1973. Now, one of the latest technological innovations, laparoscopic live donor nephrectomy, is creating more opportunities for live kidney donation at Saint Mary’s. Using a laparoscopic scope, the process is much less invasive to donors,
avoiding large incisions for less pain and faster healing. Donors typically go home in two days. Kidneys from live donors more easily graft to recipient patients, improving outcomes. Every week, patients suffering from end-stage renal disease are getting a new opportunity for life at Saint Mary’s Kidney Transplant Center.

Those waiting for a kidney receive dialysis at one of several locations in the community, including an inpatient dialysis unit at Saint Mary’s. Of course, those suffering from the slow debilitating process of kidney failure face more than the physical challenges. Our multi-disciplinary approach brings all the specialists together, raising care to a whole different level. Nephrologists, transplant and urology surgeons, anesthesiologists and primary physicians are joined by transplant coordinators, registered nurses, social workers, dieticians, financial coordinators, and other specialists to plan and provide care through the whole process of such a life-transforming event.


Over 1,000 Kidney Transplants Performed Since 1973

Return to Report to the Community Topics