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WHO WE SERVE
Since its early days, Ochsner has been a healthcare center for both national and international patients, including those from Central and South America. Many of the specialized services developed at Ochsner assist patients from other countries, and the Transplant Institute follows this tradition with adults and children from around the world coming to Ochsner for organ transplants. We have treated transplant patients from 37 states and 10 countries.
WHAT OCHSNER MEANS TO PATIENTS
• Shorter wait times for transplant • Higher transplant success rates • Innovative surgical procedures
• Minimal operative times
• On-site housing
• Fewer days in critical care, shorter hospital stays
• Staff always accessible to patients
• Comfortable and convenient accommodations for families and patients
• Translation services and other support services for international patients
WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED
The life of each organ transplant patient is our most signiicant accomplishment. Ochsner works as a team
to achieve new medical advances and optimal eficiencies that save more lives. Each Ochsner transplant program has earned accolades. In 2014, more than 3,300 potential transplant candidates were referred to our Institute, with 426 of these candidates receiving a transplant.
In 2014, we performed the most adult liver transplants of any U.S. hospital. We are the largest Medicare-approved heart transplant program in the state, and the only lung transplant program in Louisiana. The kidney transplant program achieved a program milestone of 153 transplants in 2014. The 2014 kidney/pancreas program performed the second highest number of transplants in the nation.
HOW WE WORK TO SAVE MORE LIVES THROUGH TRANSPLANTS
Since one donor can save as many as nine people, Ochsner avidly promotes organ donation through public education and donor recruitment programs. With more than 121,000 American men, women and children waiting for life-saving organ transplants and an average of 20 Americans dying each day because of the lack of available organs, we are doing all we can to encourage more people to become donors.
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