Heart Transplants Approved
The United Network for Organ Sharing Board of Directors has approved an MCG Health System heart transplantation program.
“This is the first step in a process that will allow us to become the only heart transplant program in the CSRA,” said Dr. Kevin Landolfo, MCG Health System’s clinical service chief and director of the Heart Transplant Program. “After November, we expect that area heart failure patients will no longer have to leave the area to get a heart transplant. They’ll be able to come to MCG.”
Since 1968, MCG has performed more than 1,700 kidney transplants. Simultaneous kidney/ pancreas transplantation began in 1994. Today, the health system is the only medical facility in the state outside of Atlanta to perform kidney and pancreas transplants.