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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Location

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Division of Bone Marrow Transplant
and Immunodeficiency
3333 Burnet Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45229
Direct phone: (513) 636-4258
Toll-free: (800) 344-2462

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 84
  • PBSC: 42
  • Cord Blood: 17
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 30
Performs pediatric transplants

Overview

The BMT Program is committed to excellence in patient care, innovative clinical and translational research. The program is led by Stella Davies, MB, BS, PhD, with over 30 years experience with pediatric transplant. Our team is dedicated to a disease-specific approach to the management of patient care.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1981 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since January 1990.

Attending physicians

Adult - Priscilla Badia, Jacob Bleesing, Sharat Chandra, Christopher Dandoy, Stella Davies, Mike Grimley, Zahra Hudda, Sonata Jodele, Michael Jordan, Pooja Khandelwal, Ruby Khoury, Jane Koo, Mary Krupski, Ashish Kumar, Rebecca Marsh, Parinda Mehta, Kasiani Myers, Anthony Sabulski, Michelle (YunZu) Wang

Pediatric - Priscilla Badia, Jacob Bleesing, Sharat Chandra, Christopher Dandoy, Stella Davies, Mike Grimley, Zahra Hudda, Sonata Jodele, Michael Jordan, Pooja Khandelwal, Ruby Khoury, Jane Koo, Mary Krupski, Ashish Kumar, Rebecca Marsh, Parinda Mehta, Kasiani Myers, Anthony Sabulski, Michelle (YunZu) Wang

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Lodging: Ronald McDonald House. Family Resource Center/Concierge offer discounted rates for local hotels. Transportation: Guest services shuttle from airport to hotel/appointment. Shuttle to area stores for shopping. Ronald McDonald House provides shuttle services to area stores and local events. Foundation assistance toward cost of transportation. Resource Needs: Meal cards for those families in need. Concierge Services, Family Resource Center, Chapel and Meditation rooms on site. Volunteer Services, Pet center. Bank ATMs available in hospital. Psychosocial Support Services: Social Work, Interpreter Services, Behavioral Medicine, International Coordination Services, Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Physical and Occupational Therapy, Child Life, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute Therapy Dog, Holistic Health, Pastoral Care, Bereavement Coordinator. Other Support Services: Dragonfly Foundation provides welcome bags and ongoing support to boost comfort and care needs. Various external Foundations offer individual financial grants to those families that meet eligibility criteria. Collaboration with Cincinnati Zoo for private animal encounters for eligible patients and families. Caregiver Support Groups: Caregiver Connections-lunch provided twice a month. Sibling Support Group-Dinner offered weekly, Max's Meals for holidays and special events.

About the center

Overview

The BMT Program is committed to excellence in patient care, innovative clinical and translational research. The program is led by Stella Davies, MB, BS, PhD, with over 30 years experience with pediatric transplant. Our team is dedicated to a disease-specific approach to the management of patient care.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1981 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since January 1990.

Attending physicians

Adult - Priscilla Badia, Jacob Bleesing, Sharat Chandra, Christopher Dandoy, Stella Davies, Mike Grimley, Zahra Hudda, Sonata Jodele, Michael Jordan, Pooja Khandelwal, Ruby Khoury, Jane Koo, Mary Krupski, Ashish Kumar, Rebecca Marsh, Parinda Mehta, Kasiani Myers, Anthony Sabulski, Michelle (YunZu) Wang

Pediatric - Priscilla Badia, Jacob Bleesing, Sharat Chandra, Christopher Dandoy, Stella Davies, Mike Grimley, Zahra Hudda, Sonata Jodele, Michael Jordan, Pooja Khandelwal, Ruby Khoury, Jane Koo, Mary Krupski, Ashish Kumar, Rebecca Marsh, Parinda Mehta, Kasiani Myers, Anthony Sabulski, Michelle (YunZu) Wang

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on

Pediatric only

Other programs and services

Lodging: Ronald McDonald House. Family Resource Center/Concierge offer discounted rates for local hotels. Transportation: Guest services shuttle from airport to hotel/appointment. Shuttle to area stores for shopping. Ronald McDonald House provides shuttle services to area stores and local events. Foundation assistance toward cost of transportation. Resource Needs: Meal cards for those families in need. Concierge Services, Family Resource Center, Chapel and Meditation rooms on site. Volunteer Services, Pet center. Bank ATMs available in hospital. Psychosocial Support Services: Social Work, Interpreter Services, Behavioral Medicine, International Coordination Services, Music Therapy, Art Therapy, Physical and Occupational Therapy, Child Life, Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute Therapy Dog, Holistic Health, Pastoral Care, Bereavement Coordinator. Other Support Services: Dragonfly Foundation provides welcome bags and ongoing support to boost comfort and care needs. Various external Foundations offer individual financial grants to those families that meet eligibility criteria. Collaboration with Cincinnati Zoo for private animal encounters for eligible patients and families. Caregiver Support Groups: Caregiver Connections-lunch provided twice a month. Sibling Support Group-Dinner offered weekly, Max's Meals for holidays and special events.

Overall center survival


Patient survival information for this center

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

  1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
  2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
  3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 208 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 84.5%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 82.4% and 91.3%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

Total transplants

Total transplants


173

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 45 9 4 58
Unrelated donor 39 33 13 85
Total allogeneic 84 42 17 143
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
30
-- 30
Total combined
156 17 173

Transplants by disease

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 53 3 0 0 56
Unrelated 68 16 0 0 84
Autologous 25 5 0 0 30
Total 146 24 0 0 170

Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.

Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.

More information about transplants for this disease can be found:

Additional information

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator:
Angie Bonavita
(513) 636-4258
Email: angie.bonavita@cchmc.org

Financial representative:
Teresa Bowling
513-517-0212
Email: teresal.bowling@cchmc.org

NMDP patient navigators

Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.

Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743

Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410.
(Long distance or international charges may apply.)

Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org

Survivorship program

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