For information on the benefits of the Temple-Crozer Kidney Alliance, as well as information on where care is performed, how to determine whether or not you're a candidate for kideny transplanation and contact information, please click on the links below.

Benefits of the Temple-Crozer Kidney Transplant Alliance

Where Care Is Performed

Are You A Candidate for Transplantation?

Learn More about the Alliance

Benefits of the Temple-Crozer Kidney
Transplant Alliance

Patients in Delaware and Chester Counties can now receive easier access to high quality kidney transplant services. In addition to the actual surgical procedure, kidney transplant patients must undergo a range of pre-procedure evaluations and testing as well as post-procedure care. Kidney transplants are not currently performed at Crozer, so in the past, kidney transplant candidates who live nearby and have an existing relationship with its physicians have been required to obtain these services at another hospital.

The Temple-Crozer Kidney Transplant Alliance provides patients with the convenience of receiving care closer to home, coordinated at Crozer. The Temple team collaborates with the Crozer medical staff. Throughout the kidney transplant process, Temple and Crozer physicians and staff closely collaborate so that patients receive the best possible care.

Patients also benefit from the expertise and experience of the Temple Abdominal Organ Transplant Program.

Primary care physicians, who often are the first to diagnose renal problems in patients, will now have the opportunity to refer their patients into a comprehensive, coordinated program.

Where Care Is Performed 

• Kidney Transplant Evaluations Performed at Crozer
  
  Patients will meet with physicians and other staff to receive all necessary evaluations at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Professional Office Building I, Suite 200. The largest facility in Delaware County and part of the Crozer-Keystone Health System, Crozer is a tertiary care, teaching hospital that has a long-standing relationship with Temple.  

• Kidney Transplants Performed at Temple Transplants will be performed at Temple University Hospital, one of the Delaware Valley’s premier academic medical centers. Temple’s Kidney Transplant Program offers patients a skilled team of physicians and support staff, a full range of transplant options and a nearly 20-year track record of success.

Are You A Candidate for Transplantation?

Thanks to advances in transplant techniques and management, most patients with kidney failure can be considered for transplantation. At Temple, patients can receive a transplanted kidney from either a deceased donor or a living donor.

While the majority of transplanted kidneys still come from deceased donors, the number of living donors is increasing rapidly because of the benefits to the transplant recipient. Temple’s team makes every effort to find a living kidney donor for each transplant candidate. If a living donor is not a possibility, transplant candidates are matched with deceased donors through the United Network of Organ Sharing national waiting list.

For living donors, Temple-Crozer Kidney Transplant Alliance surgeons offer a less invasive procedure called laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. This technique can result in a reduced hospital stay, more rapid recovery, less pain and resumption of full activity within a few weeks.

Learn More about the Alliance

Members of the community and potential patients who have questions about the Alliance can call 610-619-8481. 

Click here for more information about the Temple-Crozer Kidney Transplant Alliance.

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