Northside Hospital Unveils New BMT Unit
Northside Hospital is proud to announce the opening of its new Blood & Marrow Transplant (BMT) Unit, located on the hospital’s Atlanta campus, securing the hospital’s position as one of the largest clinical transplant programs in the Southeast United States.
The beautiful, new unit expands the number of beds available previously from 17 to 36 and provides a state-of-the-art center for inpatient BMT and leukemia care, including:
- emphasis on infection prevention, with 100% hepa-filtration, individual air ducts and positive pressure rooms, seamless surfaces, and more
- in-room monitoring
- medical-grade devices in every room
- new satellite pharmacy with chemotherapy hood
- additional family and visitor amenities such as an expanded family room with computer and TV and a new exercise room with shower
“Northside’s BMT Program is the most comprehensive community program in Georgia, serving patients who undergo bone marrow or stem cell transplant therapy,” said Patti Owen, director of oncology at Northside. “The staff of Oncology Services and specifically the Blood & Marrow Transplant Program are very excited about the opening of the new unit and being able to serve more patients.”
Northside was the first community hospital in Georgia to perform unrelated (allogeneic) donor transplants and ranks within the top 14 percent of all blood and marrow transplant providers in the country. Performing 136 transplants during FY 2009, Northside’s program remained one of the top in the U.S. by volume and has the best survival outcomes for adult-matched-unrelated-donor transplants in the country.
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