East Texas Medical Center Tyler's kidney transplant program was
honored recently at the Seventh National Learning Congress where it
received a prestigious bronze award from the Department of Health
and Human Services.
The award ceremony in Grapevine, Texas, acknowledged hospitals,
programs and individuals from across the nation in the areas of
donation and transplantation. The transplant division analyzed the
266 individual kidney transplant programs. The award process
measured exceptional outcomes in post-transplant survival rates,
wait-list mortality rates and deceased donor transplantation
rates. No programs in the nation received a gold award, 15
received a silver award and ETMC Tyler was one of 56 programs who
received a bronze award. That means only 26 percent of the kidney
programs in the country were honored which included ETMC.
"This award is a tribute to our outstanding kidney
transplantation team," commented Dr. Steven Potter, medical
director of the ETMC Transplant Center. "We are honored to receive
this recognition.
Since the program began in 1987, ETMC has performed 607 kidney
transplants.