Lifesaving Care for End-Stage Organ Failure
The Renown Transplant Institute offers hope to area patients who need organ transplants.
Rahul Mediwala, MD, MBA
Ernesto P. Molmenti, MD, PhD, MBA
AFTER YEARS OF PLANNING AND fundraising, the new Renown Transplant Institute is scheduled to perform its first kidney transplants this winter.
“ I’ ve been a nephrologist in town for the last 16 years, and I’ ve seen the struggles our patients face to get transplants,” says Rahul Mediwala, MD, MBA, CEO of Renown Medical Group and nephrologist at Renown Nephrology.“ As our area has grown, it’ s essential for us to offer transplants to our community – and we’ re proud to launch this new center.”
However, advanced kidney care is only the start of what Renown Health has planned.
“ Together with our partner, the Nevada Transplant Institute, we are already planning to expand our transplant services not only to livers and hearts but also to other organs,” says Ernesto P. Molmenti, MD, PhD, MBA, director of the Renown Transplant Institute and chief of Transplant Surgery at Renown Health.“ We believe that everyone with end-stage organ failure should be provided the opportunity to benefit from the enhanced survival and the better quality of life provided by a transplant.”
The Need for New Organ Donors More than 103,000 people in the U. S. need organ transplantation, and kidneys are the greatest need. Seventeen people die every day waiting on an organ, and a person is added to the waiting list for new organs every eight minutes. In Nevada, 650 people are currently on the kidney transplant waiting list, which means many patients are dying because they do not have adequate access to services related to end-stage organ failure.
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