Transplant Specialty Center

St. John Transplant Specialty Center is part of St. John Hospital and Medical Center. Since opening in 1990, patients have been coming to St. John from around the country to gain access to leading-edge technology (such as laparoscopic-live donor nephrectomy ) and a compassionate and caring staff. St. John Transplant Specialty Center provides kidney transplants.

St. John Transplant Specialty Center is actively involved in performing live donor transplants. Donors can include living blood-related donors such as a brother, sister, parent, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew. Living donors may also include people who are not blood related such as a spouse, cousin, in-law or friend. In the state of Michigan, there are more than 2,570 people waiting for a kidney transplant, which is why St. John recently increased its living donor pool to include close friends of the kidney recipient.

St. John Transplant Specialty Center was the first metropolitan Detroit hospital to perform a laparoscopic live-donor nephrectomy.

SJH&MC is now partnering with another Ascension Health ministry, Genesys (in Grand Blanc, MI), to offer kidney transplant services to Flint area residents. Patients receive evaluations, consultations, pre-treatment and post-surgical care at Genesys, and travel to SJH&MC only for the actual kidney transplant surgery.  Nephrologists at Genesys work side by side with Henry Oh, MD, FACS, director of Transplant Surgery at St. John; and Darla Granger, MD, FACS, transplant surgeon at St. John.

For more information, call 313-343-3047 or visit stjohn.org. For information on the Genesys office, call Brenda Bergeron, RN, BSN, CCTC at 810-606-7990.    

For more information about transplants, organ donation or research studies, contact us.

Transplant Specialty Center
St. John Hospital
22101 Moross
Detroit, MI 48236-2172
(phone) 313-343-3047
(fax) 313-343-7349
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