Where did you donate?

[Barbara S]

Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick NJ
good experience (in 2003)

[rdr321]

Riverside California. Riverside Community Hospital

[joshua_david]

Toronto General Hospital.  Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  Would do it again in a heartbeat if I could (donated 30% of my liver to my son who was 1 at the time).

[donorgirl]

University Of MD Medical Center, Baltimore MD.  Surgeon was Dr. Cooper.  Excellent surgical and support staff.


Lee (donated July 2007)

[Prelude_Sarah]

Denver Colorado, University of Colorado Hospital, May 10th 2011

[Scott337]

University of Minnesota - Fairview,  Minneapolis, Minnesota  October 22, 2010      BEST EXPERIENCE EVER!!!


Scott    8)

[sunny50]

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Wonderful experience...had the best care ever!!!

[Donna Luebke]

Cleveland, OH  Cleveland Clinic  8/26/1994

[jatopa]

Approved for donation to my brother, who has now been cleared for surgery.  Anxiously awaiting an OR date at UCLA, the best in the region.  My nurse coordinator is a gem.  Very professional and kind.  She always responds to my emails. 

[mom2three]

Cleveland Clinic.  June 2010.  Top notch care. Great doctors and excellent donor coordinators.

[lawphi]

Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD.  Traveled from out of state. 

I had a good experience with my pre-donation coordinator.  She was very good with answering emails and hand holding.  Sherri from this board also put up with me :) 

My husband's coordinator arranged for my kidney to be shipped and gave actual additional updates to my family.  She came by to visit twice afterwards.  His transplant nephrologist also inquired about my recovery at the six month appointment and put a note in my husband's medical records. 

[john78259]

San Antonio, Texas (Texas Transplant Intitute/Methodist Specialty & Transplant Hospital)

[hawkeye74]

Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver, Colorado.  Great experience.

[Linda]

Birmingham Alabama, UAB.  The hospital experience was mostly positive.  But I didn't meet my surgeon until the morning of the surgery and was told he would "Probably" be able to see me before surgery.  I informed them there would be no surgery if I didn't meet him so for them to convey that to him.

My living donor coordinator was a nightmare from beginning to end!  Incredibly frustrating experience.  I have not had access to my surgeon after the surgery to answer questions and the coordinator made many mistakes, causing weeks of delays.  My recipient had a useless coordinator as well.  Communication is a MAJOR issue at this transplant center and it needs to be fixed. It should not have been such a negative experience dealing with the person who is supposed to be my coordinator. (sorry for the rant).

[james]

Toronto, Ontario Canada, St. Michael's