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Portage, Indiana - Liver and Kidney Transplant Care

Liver Transplant Care:
Our focus on community outreach benefits patients and their physicians by providing many of the pre-liver transplant services close to home and offering convenient accessibility that affords each of our patients an excellent opportunity for a successful liver transplant.

We are available to see the following types of patients at the satellite clinics:

  • Potential liver transplant candidates
    Initial visit to determine the likelihood of being a transplant candidate. If the patient is identified as a candidate, the patient will require evaluation by the liver transplant team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital before being listed for a liver transplant.

  • Patients on the liver transplant waiting list
    From the time a patient is listed until transplantation, patients may choose to have basic follow-up visits either at Northwestern or at the satellite clinic.

Kidney Transplant Care:
We are pleased to offer the Northwestern Organ Transplant Clinic in Portage, Indiana. The goal of this clinic is to decrease the number of visits requiring patients to travel to Chicago. Patients on the Northwestern Memorial waiting list may need to visit Northwestern Memorial on occasion for procedures and tests that cannot be performed locally and to meet the transplant team prior to listing.

Transplant Services
John Friedewald, MD, Transplant Nephrologist on the medical staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a Northwestern Memorial Transplant Surgeon, a kidney nurse and a social worker will be available to see the following types of patients in the Portage clinic:

  • Potential kidney transplant candidates
    Patients (recipient and donor) will begin with a detailed history and physical followed by a multi-disciplinary evaluation plan.  Patients who are transplant candidates will be asked to attend a group transplant education session.  Information and findings from the evaluation process will be subsequently presented to the selection committee at Northwestern.

Contact
Portage, Indiana - Liver and Kidney Transplant Care
3691 Willowcreek Road, Suite 100
Portage, Indiana 46368
(Located in Lake Shore Bone & Joint Institute - directions)
Kidney: 312-695-0828
Liver: 1-888-99-LIVER (1-888-995-4837)