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What every US living donor program publishes — financial help for donors, paired exchange, and how to reach them. Checked against public sources and dated.
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Tennessee · 6 verified centers

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  • Erlanger Medical Center

    Chattanooga, TN

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verified

    Erlanger's nephrology and kidney transplant page says it performed the region's first hand-assisted, laparoscopic living-donor nephrectomy, a minimally invasive kidney-removal procedure that allows a quicker recovery for the donor.

  • Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center

    Memphis, TN

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verified

    A pediatric program. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare's site says the Methodist Transplant Institute partners with Le Bonheur Children's Hospital on pediatric kidney transplant care, and that living-donor transplantation is offered as an option for its pediatric patients.

  • Methodist University Hospital

    Memphis, TN

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange

    Methodist Transplant Institute's living-kidney-donation page says it partners with the Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation to pair incompatible donor-recipient pairs with other pairs nationwide, and that donors meet with a surgeon, nephrologist, and social worker.

  • Saint Thomas Hospital

    Nashville, TN

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange

    Ascension Saint Thomas's kidney-transplant page says its living donor program includes a paired donor exchange through the National Kidney Registry, and that every living donor completes a thorough medical screening as part of the evaluation.

  • University of Tennessee Medical Center at Knoxville

    Knoxville, TN

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verified

    UT Medical's transplant-services page says its Living Donor Coordinator helps connect a prospective donor with the program, and that a living-donor transplant can be planned around everyone's schedule rather than the emergency surgery a deceased-donor transplant requires.

  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Nashville, TN

    NLDAC financial assistancePaired exchange

    Vanderbilt's kidney-transplant living-donor page says it offers paired kidney donations for a donor-recipient pair with an incompatible blood type or tissue, exchanging a kidney with another such pair, and that every donor is paired with an independent living donor advocate.

My Kidney Story does not collect, store, or evaluate medical information, and nothing on this page is medical advice. Donor eligibility is determined solely by a transplant center after its own independent evaluation.

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