For more than 30 years, Methodist Healthcare’s Transplant Institute in Memphis, TN, has been a leader in organ transplantation, including living donor transplant and organ splitting.  Specializing in kidney, pancreas, kidney-pancreas and liver transplants, the expert organ transplant care team has helped save the lives of patients in the Mid South suffering from kidney failure and end-stage liver diseases.

Patients who search online for “transplant Tennessee” will find recent highlights of Methodist Healthcare’s transplant program, including:

In 2008, the Transplant Institute gained Center of Excellence status from OptumHealth for adult liver and kidney transplant programs.

In the spring of 2009, Methodist confirmed, with the patient’s permission, that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., received a liver transplant at the Transplant Institute.  Methodist’s one-year patient and graft survival rates are among the best in the nation and are said to have been a dominant reason in Jobs’ choice of transplant centers.

In September 2009, Methodist Healthcare, in partnership with the University of Tennessee, performed its 1000th liver transplant, becoming one of 33 out of 126 liver transplant programs in the United States to reach that milestone.

To learn more about transplant tennessee, please visit the website for Methodist Healthcare’s Transplant Institute.