Shuttle buses run regularly between the facilities and the hospital. While medical needs may be your biggest concern, your emotional needs are also extremely important. BMT services offers many sources of support during your transplant stay. Your social worker will assist with housing and transportation needs before, during and after transplant. Social workers also can provide individual and family counseling and conduct family support groups.
Chaplains are also available to offer spiritual and emotional support if desired.
Child Family Life specialists can offer play therapy and relaxation therapy. They also plan special programs for pediatric patients and visiting siblings. Care Partners matches trained volunteers from the community with BMT patients and their families. Care Partners volunteers are available to provide friendship and support for families who are far from home and their own support systems of family and friends. Care Partners was instrumental in getting computers with Internet access placed in patients' rooms on the BMT unit at Fairview-University Medical Center.