Hopkins has the experience and expertise to handle any tertiary care need encountered by your patient. The Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center coordinates with every other department in the Hospital so that consults are immediate and convenient. Multidisciplinary teams address every aspect of the transplantation process with patients and family members. Complete education about transplant is the key to making the experience as safe and comfortable as possible for all involved. Care plans are customized for each patient, drawing on resources from a variety of disciplines, including social work, nursing, physical and occupational therapy, psychiatry and nutrition.
Financial services are available, also.
Prior to discharge, patients and their families receive thorough education in post-transplant care by the transplant coordinator, case manager and staff nurses. In this case, Hopkins asks to receive all pertinent test results. A member of the heart and lung transplant team is available to patients or referring physicians 24 hours a day for phone consultation. The lung transplant team holds a multidisciplinary meeting weekly to discuss patients who have been transplanted, those who are on the waiting list or those who are in the process of being evaluated. Team rounds are conducted on a daily basis on hospitalized patients, at which time physicians, the nurse coordinator, the social worker, the physical therapist and the nutritionist all have immediate input into the patient's care plan.