Loyola University Medical Center Named Donor Care Network Center of Excellence for Living Donor Transplant

MAYWOOD, IL – The Donor Care Network has designated Loyola University Medical Center as a Center of Excellence. The Donor Care Network helps ensure living kidney donors are treated with the utmost courtesy and respect by implementing best practices and recognizing facilities that adhere to their guiding principles. The designation will help Loyola improve patient access to living kidney donor transplants through the National Kidney Registry.

The National Kidney Registry is dedicated to increasing the number of kidney transplants from living donors, improving donor-recipient matches for longer-lasting transplants, and offering protection and support to living kidney donors to make the kidney donation process safer, easier and more convenient.

Centers of Excellence are high-performing transplant centers that participate in the National Kidney Registry and qualify under the Donor Care Network's extensive guidelines and commitments to provide the highest level of care, protection and support to living donors. A full list of commitments for Centers of Excellence is available on the Donor Care Network website.

"We are honored to be named by the Donor Care Network as a Center of Excellence," Luis Fernandez, MD, director of abdominal transplant. "This designation is evidence of our commitment to the highest level of patient care, and we look forward to helping more kidney transplant patients through this recognition."

Since 1971, Loyola Medicine has offered the highest level of multidisciplinary care for kidney transplant patients and living donors.