Offering Atlanta Comprehensive Transplant Services  

Piedmont's Transplant Services in Atlanta, GA offers superior medical and surgical care for kidney, pancreas and liver recipients and donors, delivered by an interdisciplinary team of experienced, dedicated specialists in a caring, compassionate environment. Our mission is threefold:

• Provide comprehensive transplant services to enhance patients' quality of life.
• Save lives by reducing the wait times for patients to receive organs.
• Advance the science of organ transplantation through progressive research.

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Piedmont's extensive experience positions our program among the top 10 percent in the country. From 1986 to 1998, Piedmont had a joint transplant program with Emory Hospital and performed 638 kidney transplants. In 1999, Piedmont established its own program, and since then our program has grown dramatically. In 2004 alone, 126 kidney transplants, two simultaneous kidney-pancreas transplants, and two pancreas-only transplants were performed at Piedmont. Of the 130 transplants, 70 involved living donors, which exceeds the national average of the number of living donor transplants performed.

Piedmont was the first Georgia hospital to perform laparoscopic kidney removal for living donors, which yields a smaller incision, a shorter hospital stay and quicker recovery. Physicians at Piedmont were the first in Georgia to perform a simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant.

A grant from the Carlos and Marguerite Mason Trust in 2001 helped Piedmont establish the Mason Transplant Clinic. This enhanced existing transplant services and provided a central, convenient location for pre-transplant evaluation and post-surgical follow-up care on an outpatient basis.

Piedmont recently added liver transplantation to its specialties. Piedmont is one of only two liver transplant programs in Georgia, enabling more Georgians to stay closer to home for transplant services.

With more than 87,000 Americans currently awaiting transplants, the need for donor organs continues to exceed supply. Transplants from living donors are often more successful because there is a better tissue match between the donor and the recipient and, consequently, less risk of organ rejection. The number of living donor kidney transplants performed at Piedmont exceeds the national average, and our patients experience shorter-than-average wait times for organs, nationally.

Our Living Donor Leave benefit allows employees of Piedmont Hospital and Piedmont Fayette Hospital up to 30 days' paid leave for organ donors and up to seven days' paid leave for bone marrow donors. Piedmont and Fayette were the first hospitals in Georgia-and among the first in the nation-to offer this benefit.

Piedmont is also working earnestly with insurance companies to support coverage for living donors.