AMERICA'S BEST HOSPITALS/TRANSPLANT INFORMATION

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there's a lot we can learn from the message below:

- The Boomer Esiason Foundation sends out an interesting newsletter

-FYI some facts about the transplant situation in the US

- and lack of organ donation is a serious problem

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AMERICA'S BEST HOSPITALS/TRANSPLANT INFORMATION

U.S. News & World Report

July 23, 2001

SECTION: NEWS YOU CAN USE; AMERICA'S BEST HOSPITALS 2001; COVER PACKAGE;

Vol. 131 , No. 3; Pg. 49

HEADLINE: Kidney Transplant; Heart Transplant; Kidney-Pancreas Transplant; Lung

Transplant;

Pancreas Transplant; Intestine Transplant; Heart-Lung

Transplant

BYLINE: By ; Tucker

Kidney Transplant

The most common transplant, it is typically done on people whose kidneys have

failed because of

diabetes or hypertension.

Three-year survival rate 91.0 pct.

People on waiting list, Jan. 1, 2000 44,010

People added to waiting list in 2000 22,272

People who got transplant in 2000 11,030

Deaths while waiting in 2000 2,882

BUSIEST HOSPITALS IN 2000

1. Univ. of land Medical System, Baltimore 407 transplants

2. University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham 295

3. University of California, San Francisco

Medical Center 275

4. St. Hospital and Health Center,

Indianapolis 233

5. University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics,

Madison 226

6. Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus 204

7. University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 203

8. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 197

9. Fairview-University Medical Center, Minneapolis 194

10. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 176

Heart Transplant

The procedure can save lives when disease destroys the heart muscle. The supply

of donor hearts

can't meet growing need.

Three-year survival rate 78.1 pct.

People on waiting list, Jan. 1, 2000 4,099

People added to waiting list in 2000 3,452

People who got transplant in 2000 2,200

Deaths while waiting in 2000 590

BUSIEST HOSPITALS IN 2000

1. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 102

transplants

2. New York Presbyterian Hospital 93

3. Cleveland Clinic 76

4. Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia 54

5. Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. 52

6. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia 50

7. Texas Heart Institute-St. Luke's Episcopal

Hospital, Houston 46

8. Shands Hospital at the University of Florida,

Gainesville 40

9. University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 39

10. University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham 38

Kidney-Pancreas Transplant

Patients with type 1 diabetes, whose pancreases don't make insulin, are also

prone to kidney

failure. Demand for the double transplant surged after Medicare

approved it two years ago.

Three-year survival rate 90.1 pct.

People on waiting list, Jan. 1, 2000 2,143

People added to waiting list in 2000 2,016

People who got transplant in 2000 1,123

Deaths while waiting in 2000 187

BUSIEST HOSPITALS IN 2000

1. University of Wisconsin Hospital

and Clinics, Madison 52 transplants

2. Fairview-University Medical Center, Minneapolis 40

3. Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago 37

4. Ohio State U. Med. Center, Columbus 35

5. University of Tennessee Medical Center,

Knoxville 33

6. University of Miami, Memorial Hospital 28

7. Emory University Hospital, Atlanta 22

8. UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles 21

8. University of California, San Francisco

Medical Center 21

8. University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham 21

Lung Transplant

Only now becoming common, this transplant can buy years of life for people

suffering from

emphysema, cystic fibrosis, or pulmonary fibrosis.

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Three-year survival rate 58.4 pct.

People on waiting list, Jan. 1, 2000 3,429

People added to waiting list in 2000 1,977

People who got transplant in 2000 962

Deaths while waiting in 2000 483

BUSIEST HOSPITALS IN 2000

1. Duke University Medical Center,

Durham, N.C. 53 transplants

2. -Jewish Hospital, St. Louis 52

3. Cleveland Clinic 45

4. University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor 40

5. University of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham 39

6. Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center 38

7. F.G. McGaw Hospital at Loyola University,

Maywood, Ill. 35

8. Clarian Health Partners, Indianapolis 32

9. Fairview-University Medical Center, Minneapolis 31

10. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia 30

Pancreas Transplant

This procedure is less common than kidney-pancreas surgery for type I

diabetes.

Three-year survival rate 88.6 pct.

People on waiting list, Jan. 1, 2000 717

People added to waiting list in 2000 789

People who got transplant in 2000 425

Deaths while waiting in 2000 15

BUSIEST HOSPITALS IN 2000

1. Fairview-University Medical Center,

Minneapolis 111 transplants

2. Univ. of land Medical System, Baltimore 49

3. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. 19

4. Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center 18

5. University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics,

Madison 16

6. University of Massachusetts Memorial Health

Care, Worcester 13

7. Univ. of Tenn. Medical Center, Knoxville 12

8. University of Miami, Memorial Hospital 9

Intestine Transplant

The small intestine may need replacing in premature infants and disease or

trauma victims.

Three-year survival rate 74.9 pct.

People on waiting list, Jan. 1, 2000 116

People added to waiting list in 2000 171

People who got transplant in 2000 77

Deaths while waiting in 2000 23

BUSIEST HOSPITALS IN 2000

1. University of Miami,

Memorial Hospital 17 transplants

2. Univ. of Pittsburgh Medical Center 14

3. Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York 13

4. U. of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 13

5. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh 9

Heart-Lung Transplant

The rarest, most complicated transplant, it is usually done for a congenital

heart disease.

Three-year survival rate 51.6 pct.

People on waiting list, Jan. 1, 2000 226

People added to waiting list in 2000 115

People who got transplant in 2000 47

Deaths while waiting in 2000 40

BUSIEST HOSPITALS IN 2000

1. Stanford University Hospital,

Stanford, Calif. 11 transplants

2. Univ. of Alabama Hospital at Birmingham 5

3. Univ. Medical Center, Tucson, Ariz. 4

Sources for tables: United Network for Organ Sharing; Scientific Registry of

Transplant

Recipients

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