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Primary Location:

Secondary Location:

University of Utah

1950 Circle of Hope
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
Direct phone: (801) 587-4652
Toll-free phone: (800) 664-8268
http://healthcare.utah.edu/

Primary Children's Medical Center

100 North Mario Capecchi Dr
Salt Lake City, UT 84113
Direct phone: (801) 662-4700
http://intermountainhealthcare.org/hospitals

Program Description:

Our program uses a multidisciplinary team approach in providing comprehensive medical care to patients and families in order to optimize outcomes and patient satisfaction. The team consists of BMT attending physicians, fellows, physician extenders (NPs & PAs) and coordinators. Accredited by FACT.

Contact Information:

If you have transplant-related questions, please contact Shawnda Ussery, transplant center coordinator, at (801) 662-4719 or by e-mail at shawnda.ussery@imail.org.

Program Type:

Adult and Pediatric

Attending Physicians:

(Medical Doctors)

Adult -

Michael Boyer, Thai Cao, Michael Pulsipher

Pediatric -

Michael Boyer, Meghann McManus, Michael Pulsipher

Transplants Performed:

Marrow/PBSC, single cord, and double cord

Cord blood transplants performed on:

Adult and pediatric

helpExplain Transplant Center HLA Match Requirements

Estimated Search & Transplant Costs

The costs for a transplant vary greatly from center to center and depend on factors such as health insurance, disease type and disease stage of the patient, as well as center-specific billing policies. Examples of costs in the search and transplant include:

  • The amount and geographic location of donors tested
  • Testing needed to confirm a match
  • Processing and collecting of tissue-typing samples
  • Donor workup testing needed
  • Getting the marrow, PBSC or cord blood unit for transplant

For the best understanding of costs of transplant and follow-up for a specific transplant center, contact the center's Financial Representative.

helpExplain Transplant Costs at Different Centers

Financial Services:


Financial services at this center could include:
  • Health insurance information
  • Financial assistance
  • Patient-related resources

Resources for financial information


If you have questions about costs and financial services at this transplant center, you can contact the center's financial representative, Junko Fowles by e-mail at Junko.Fowles@hsc.utah.edu or by phone at (801) 587-4483.

Many organizations exist to help patients with lodging, transportation and other transplant-related expenses. Visit the National Marrow Donor Program's Patient Organizations database for more information. Financial assistance resources are also listed on this Web site.

Transplant Experience

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1991 and has been an NMDP transplant center since September 1992.

Transplants Reported

(From Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2011
as reported by the centers
)

      Unrelated or Related Donor

Auto-
logous

(PBSC or marrow)

Total

(by transplant type)

Total Non-
Myeloablative transplants*

Marrow

PBSC

Cord
Blood

Unrelated Donor - Adult 1 27 6 --- 34 12
Unrelated Donor - Pediatric 0 0 0 --- 0 0
Related Donor - Adult 3 18 0 --- 21 6
Related Donor - Pediatric 0 0 0 --- 0 0
Autologous - Adult --- --- --- 235 235 ---
Autologous - Pediatric --- --- --- 0 0 ---
Total (by cell source) 4 45 6 235 290 18

*The total Non-Myeloablative transplants column shows a subset of the total number of transplants by type.

To locate centers that perform cord blood transplants, use the search tool on this site.

The NMDP also has Transplants by Disease Charts available showing the number of NMDP coordinated transplants by disease category at each U.S. transplant center.

helpExplain Transplant Experience

Center-Specific Analysis

Survival by Patient's Age, Disease Type and Stage

If you do not find your disease in the statistics below, it may be combined with other similar diseases in a category. Please refer to our broad disease categories page for more information.

Additional Information
Further information about this center, including the number and type of transplants performed in each of the last three years, and the support groups offered, may be found in the BMT InfoNet Transplant Center Directory: http://www.bmtinfonet.org/transplantcenters.

BMT InfoNet (Blood & Marrow Transplant Information Network) is a nonprofit organization that provides information and emotional support to transplant patients and their families.

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