Transplant center directory

The Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center has been performing transplants under consistent medical leadership since 2001. The program has achieved full FACT accreditation for Adult Allogeneic and Autologous Hematopoietic Progenitor Cellular Therapy, Immune Effector Cellular Therapy, Peripheral Blood Cellular Therapy Product Collection and Cellular Therapy Product Processing with Minimal Manipulation. Avera is proud to have the only Blood and Marrow Transplant Program in the region and offers physician telemedicine capabilities to serve our large geographic area.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2001 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since May 2005.

This center's actual 1-year survival results are similar to the expected rate for this center.

The survival information we have for this center includes ONLY:

1. Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2019, 2020, 2021, and
2. Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
3. Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 32 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 81.3%.

Compared to similar patients transplanted at all centers in the U.S., we expect that the 1-year survival for patients at this center to be in a range between 59.2% and 87.9%.

For help with understanding these statistics, please see Understanding Transplant Outcomes.

For overall survival for all patients transplanted with a specific disease, please see U.S. Patient Survival report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov.

All diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

Treatments may be similar for diseases within a group. It might be helpful to look at centers that have done transplants for a specific disease and centers that have done transplants for any corresponding broad disease categories.