Top Kidney-Urologic Hospitals

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Mayo Clinic

Massachusetts General Hospital

Cleveland Clinic

New York-Presbyterian Hospital

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Duke University Medical Center

UCLA Medical Center

UCLA Medical Center

10833 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095

The UCLA transplant programs have maintained a remarkably cohesive surgical, medical and support staff, which forms an experienced and committed team to face the challenges of organ transplantation. Physicians in many subspecialties act as consultants to the transplant programs, and their breadth of experience enhances the clinical success of all of the transplant programs at UCLA.

Duke University Medical Center

Erwin Road
Durham, NC 27710

Transplantation at Duke began over 35 years ago with the implementation of a kidney transplant program. In 1965, Duke University Hospital was the first institution in North Carolina to perform a kidney transplant. Since that time Duke has continued to be a leader in the field of kidney and kidney/pancreas transplants. To date, over 2000 patients have received a kidney transplant at Duke. Over 25% of the patients transplanted have received a kidney from a living donor.

In 1989, Duke added kidney/pancreas transplants to its list of accomplishments and continues to be the leading kidney/pancreas program in the Carolinas and Virginia. Since 1989, over 200 pancreas transplants have been performed, the majority of them in conjunction with a kidney transplant.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

1211 22nd Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37232

A twin-towered, 658 bed structure, the Hospital is supported by the most up-to-date systems and technology. Designed to provide each patient with an outside view, each floor of the towers holds a nursing core so that no room is far from the nursing station. A philosophy of patient-centered care insures continuity in the patient-nurse relationship.

Vanderbilt University Hospital, supported by respected, research-based medical and nursing schools, delivers both routine inpatient care and highly specialized medical treatment and surgical procedures.

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

1 Barnes-Jewish Hosp Plaza
Saint Louis, MO 63110

Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center is the largest hospital in Missouri and the largest private employer in the St. Louis region. An affiliated teaching hospital of Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital has a 1,700 member medical staff with many who are recognized in the "Best Doctors in America." They are supported by residents, interns and fellows, in addition to nurses, technicians and other health-care professionals.

A Barnes-Jewish dialysis nurse recently gained national attention when she donated a kidney to one of her patients.

New York-Presbyterian Hospital

525 East 68th Street
New York, NY 10021

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is one of the most comprehensive university hospitals in the world, with leading specialists in every field of medicine.

Cleveland Clinic

9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195

The Cleveland Clinic is one of the world's largest and busiest healthcare institutions.The Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of America's five best hospitals.

Massachusetts General Hospital

55 Fruit Street
Boston, MA 2114

Nephrology

The Nephrology Division at the Massachusetts General Hospital is part of the Department of Medicine and of the basic and clinical research communities of the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Members of the Unit carry out basic biological and clinical research in a variety of fields such as protein structure and function, cell adhesion, mammalian gene expression, epithelial development and differentiation, branching morphogenesis, autoimmunity, signal transduction, ion transport, transplantation biology, hypertension, renal stones, and kidney development. Several model organisms are utilized in these research efforts including mice, monkeys, Drosophila, C. elegans and zebra fish. At present approximately 95 people, including 36 basic and clinical faculty and over 45 postdoctoral fellows and graduate students comprise the Unit. All faculty, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students have concurrent appointments at Harvard Medical School.

The clinical program in the MGH Nephrology Division includes hemodialysis, transplantation, chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, continuous veno-venous hemodialysis, interventional nephrology, out-patient hemodialysis and in-patient services. The in-patient services are complemented by a vigorous out-patient program , with both general and specialized renal clinics. These include clinics for hypertension, inherited kidney diseases, kidney stones, nephritis and vasculitis, early renal failure, continuous ambulatory perintoneal dialysis and renal transplantation. A multidisciplinary end stage renal disease (ESRD) program staffed by members of the Nephrology Division and Transplant Unit, provides a comprehensive and cohesive quality care to patients at all phases of their renal disease, from the earliest signs of renal impairment to vascular access care, transplantation and post transplantation management.
Urology

In order to provide the best in patient care, the Urology Service is subdivided into disease areas and staffed by physicians with special competence in these areas.

Some disease centers are staffed primarily by a urologist, while others are multidisciplinary and include, in addition to a urologist, physicians from other medical disciplines with special expertise in urologic disease.

An example of a multidisciplinary center is urologic cancer. Urology, medical oncology, radiation oncology, psychiatry and social service work closely together to provide a coordinated approach to urologic cancer care.

Infertility is another center where urology and gynecology work closely together to provide the best opportunity for fertility for the couple.

Urodynamics/neuro-urology is an example of an area primarily staffed by urology specialists. A urologic nurse clinical specialist and two urology physicians with special expertise in this area work closely together to provide the highest quality urology diagnostic evaluations.

Mayo Clinic

200 First Street Sw
Rochester, MN 55902

Urologists at Mayo Clinic provide expert care for male and female patients of all ages who suffer from problems of the urinary tract. Urologists also attend to diseases and conditions of the male reproductive organs. (Gynecologists treat problems of the female reproductive organs.) Mayo Clinic urologists perform hundreds of minimally invasive operations each year for a variety of urologic problems. These new types of minimally invasive surgical procedures produce excellent results, and patients often have shorter hospital stays, less discomfort and bleeding, and a shorter recovery period including less time away from work and regular activities. Two types of minimally invasive surgery that Mayo Clinic urologists are well known for are kidney operations and endoscopic procedures used to diagnose and treat upper urinary tract disorders.

Mayo physicians are leaders in clinical research that enhances the capability to offer the most advanced treatments available. Specialty services offered through Urology include:

• Bladder reconstruction
• Brachytherapy (radioactive seed implantation)
• Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy to destroy kidney stones
• Endoscopic and percutaneous techniques
• Genitourinary reconstruction
• Laparoscopic procedures including nephrectomy
• Medical and surgical treatment for sexual dysfunction and impotence
• Minimally invasive techniques for benign prostatic hyperplasia and other conditions
• Minimally invasive injection therapies and other procedures for incontinence
• Radical perineal prostatectomy
• Organ-sparing surgery for kidney cancer
• Penile reconstructive surgery
• Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of kidney tumors
• Urodynamic evaluation

There are five urologists practicing at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., 20 in Rochester, Minn., and seven in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Johns Hopkins Hospital

600 North Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21287

Rated best hospital in the nation for more than a dozen years, this flagship of Hopkins Medicine includes such renowned centers as the Brady Urological Institute, the Wilmer Eye Institute, the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. A treatment magnet for patients from around the world, Hopkins Hospital also provides more charity care than any other hospital in Baltimore.

Brigham and Women's Hospital

75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 2115

Brigham and Women's Hospital, a major teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is consistently included on the U.S. News and World Report Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals.

Brigham and Women's Hospital provides evaluation and surgical management of patients with urological problems, including urinary obstruction; urinary tract problems; prostate, bladder and testicular cancer; stones; tumors; hematuria of undetermined etiology; renal and adrenal hypertension; male infertility; and sexual dysfunction. Second opinions are provided if requested by a physician.