New York City transplant centers

[Sacha]

Does anybody have any advise on which transplant center is the best in the NYC area for living donor kidney transplant?

[Ninanna]

I had my initial work up done at NY Presbyterian Columbia. They were great and really made the process easy to understand and really took care of all the tests I needed done.

I ended up moving and haveing my transplant done at Hopkins. Doing my work up at Hopkins I found it very confusing, and at times I seemed more on top things than my coordinator. My care at Hopkins has been outstanding, but I know a large part of that is due to the fact I ended up being their first patient in a kidney/bone marrow transplant trial.

But I would definitely recommend NY Columbia

[SooMK]

I am also awaiting transplant at NYP/Columbia, hopefully from a living donor who is out of state. Things have moved quite smoothly although not particularly quickly but I have been feeling ok and the logistics have slowed things down. I feel like I receive very good care there. I thought they stumbled initially with my donor and also at the evaluation they were very hard on her. She is a friend, not a family member, and they pushed her pretty hard during the interviews for some reason. Perhaps that's SOP. I wasn't concerned since she knows her own mind and if she can be talked out of donating then it's probably better she doesn't do it but she's a gem. I have a list I'm keeping to give them feedback at some point in the future mostly around her evaluation which I thought wasn't always handled very professionally. I still have a high level of confidence in them. I think the weakness is on the coordinator side, both hers and mine.

[Zach]

The Rogosin Institute is another possibility.
Good luck!