50
Heart Transplantation
Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital — Dallas | Heart Transplantation
YEAR IN REVIEW
FY24
> 1,200
Heart transplants since program ’ s inception in 1986
46
Heart transplants
4
Multi-organ transplants
One of the country ’ s largest multi-specialty transplant centers
Baylor University Medical Center ’ s Transplant Program is part of Baylor Scott & White Annette C . and Harold C . Simmons Transplant Institute , one of the largest multi-specialty transplant centers in the country . Within the program are a team of professionals dedicated to the treatment of advanced heart failure , including transplant cardiologists and transplant surgeons on the medical staff , certified heart failure nurses , transplant coordinators , transplant pharmacists , dietitians , social workers , and more . The program is consistently recognized in Texas and nationally for its volume and quality , making it a destination facility for patients in need of a heart transplant .
Members of the hospital transplantation team evaluate patients by traveling to outreach clinics in Abilene , Amarillo , Longview , Lubbock , Midland-Odessa , and Shreveport , LA .
Expanding the donor pool
Baylor University Medical Center ’ s transplant program takes an aggressive |
approach to recipient and donor selection . The team was one of the first sites in |
the United States accepting Hepatitis C donor heart tissue and an early adopter |
of the TransMedics Organ |
Care System ( OCS™ ). OCS |
is the only FDA approved technology of its kind that allows preservation of the donor heart with extracorporeal perfusion . |
Time to transplant for waiting list candidates * 30 days
Nationally
BUMC
|
29.95 % 46.70 % |
By mimicking the human environment , physicians can assess the heart ’ s |
1 year
Nationally
|
63.05 % |
function for any signs of |
BUMC |
78.17 % |
damage . This advanced technology allows the hospital to expand the |
Better than national
* SRTR . org January 1 , 2018 through December 31 , 2020 .
|
organ harvesting territory . |