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| Capital Campaign Launched to Renovate Transplant Unit |
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The Harper University Hospital Transplant Program recently launched a campaign to raise $4 million to renovate and redesign the 15,000 square foot inpatient Organ Transplant and Nephrology Unit. Since 2001, the Unit has seen explosive growth, with a 2-3 fold increase in the number of transplants performed.
The renovation will include a new Transplant Acute Care Unit, new private and semi-private patient rooms, new outpatient treatment areas, and a new central charting and nursing station.
"Our intent is to completely renovate 10 Webber South to create a state-of the-art setting that matches the high level of expertise we bring to patient care," said Scott A. Gruber, M.D., Ph.D., FACS, FCP, Director, Organ Transplant Program, Harper University Hospital.
Gruber came to HUH in July 2001 as Director of its Organ Transplant Program and Professor and Chief, Section of Transplant Surgery at Wayne State University School of Medicine, after starting successful pancreas transplant programs at both Albany Medical College and the University of Texas at Houston Medical School. Since his arrival, he has recruited over 20 faculty and support staff to further expand the organ transplant program.
After just three years with the new team in place, the Harper University Hospital transplant program is nationally known for performing successful kidney transplants in the highest-risk group of patients in the country, many of whom would not be considered candidates by other transplant centers. But even with its high-risk population, the Harper Transplant Program produces outstanding patient and graft survival rates using cutting edge, anti-rejection protocols.
When compared with other kidney transplant centers in the region, a greater fraction of HUH recipients:
- are African American
- have hypertension as the cause of renal failure
- are older (age > 50 years)
- have had a previous transplant
- have a poorer antigen match
- are more highly sensitized
- receive a kidney from a donor > age 50
- receive a kidney from an African-American donor
For more information about the capital campaign,
call 313-745-7319.
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