Rush University Medical Center

Overview

The 30-bed, FACT-accredited, state-of-the-art unit offers patients the expertise of not only experienced transplant physicians, nurse practitioners and nurse clinicians, but also financial liaisons, pharmacists, radiation therapists, psychosocial oncologists, social workers, chaplains and nutritionists. Rush University Medical Center specializes in various types of transplantation, including: autologous transplantation; matched related and unrelated donor transplantation; haploidentical (half match related) donor transplant; and cord blood transplantation.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1984 and has been an NMDP transplant center since September 1993.

Attending physicians

Adult - Patrick Moore, Sunita Nathan, Celalettin Ustun

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC and single cord

Cord blood transplants

Adult only

Other programs and services

Rush University Medical Center has made special arrangements with local hotels and housing to provide accommodations at reduced rates for BMT patients.

Patient survival information for this center

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:

Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2020, 2021, 2022 and
Who had their transplant at a U.S. transplant center, and
Who had follow-up information provided by the transplant center for analysis

For this center, we have survival information for 81 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 80.9%.

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 66% and 84.3%.

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.

* The expected survival rate for a transplant center can be below, similar to, or above the range listed. This is based on comparing patient survival at all centers that treated patients with similar diseases.

The survival rate cannot tell how you will do with your transplant. Talk to your doctor to understand your prognosis or the likely course of your disease.

Total adult transplants

219

Transplants reported by the centers (from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023)

	Marrow	PBSC	Cord blood	Total
Allogeneic
Related donor	Marrow 0	PBSC 34	Cord blood 0	Total 34
Unrelated donor	Marrow 0	PBSC 26	Cord blood 0	Total 26
Total allogeneic	Marrow 0	PBSC 60	Cord blood 0	Total 60
Autologous	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 159	PBSC —	Cord blood —	Total 159
Total combined	Marrow Both marrow & PBSC 219	PBSC —	Cord blood 0	Total 219

All Diseases

Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2022 to December 31st, 2023(includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)

	0-18	19-44	45-64	65+	Total
Related	0-18 0	19-44 9	45-64 19	65+ 6	Total 34
Unrelated	0-18 0	19-44 9	45-64 11	65+ 6	Total 26
Autologous	0-18 0	19-44 24	45-64 89	65+ 46	Total 159
Total	0-18 0	19-44 42	45-64 119	65+ 58	Total 219

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.

Centers are not required to report autologous transplants so the numbers might be incomplete.

More information about transplants can be found:

U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
report at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov
List of diseases

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator

Emilee Moeke

Phone: (312) 942-6028

Email: emilee_moeke@rush.edu

Financial representative

Myrna Palma

Phone: (312) 942-5162

Email: myrna_palma@rush.edu

NMDP patient navigators

Patient navigators can answer your questions about choosing a transplant center and provide support and education to help you throughout your transplant journey.

Inside the United States: 1 (888) 999-6743
Outside the United States: 1 (763) 406-3410. (Long distance or international charges may apply.)

Email: patientinfo@nmdp.org

More resources

Choosing a transplant center
Preparing for transplant
Learn about transplant outcomes and treatment decisions (Opens in a new tab)
Support and resources (including non-English materials)
U.S. Transplant Data by Center (Opens in a new tab)
at blood cell.transplant.hrsa.gov

Rush University Medical Center

1725 W. Harrison Street Suite 809

Chicago, IL 60612

Phone:312-942-4686

For more information about this program: http://www.rush.edu

Overview

Patients are offered the opportunity to meet with a Nurse Practitioner and Psychologist in our Survivorship Clinic if they are 6 months or more post-transplant and without active disease. This one hour visit focuses on evaluating patient needs and helping patients transition back to life after transplant. All patients receive a survivorship care plan, which touches on all aspects of life after transplant, and provides recommendation for when to contact the transplant team and routine preventative health care.

Staff

Program Director:Celalettin Ustun, MD

Program Coordinator:Laura Kalas & Jackie Baptista, NP

Medical Specialties in Program

Psychiatry/psychology.

Medical Services Offered

Fertility counseling, reproductive health, financial counseling, nutrition/dietetics, sexual health, social services, vaccinations.

Telemedicine services are available.

Patient Eligibility

Adults

Allogeneic and Autologous transplant recipients
Adults: 6 months after transplant.
Adults (over age 18)
- Will provide care to adult patients who underwent transplant as a child
Does accept patients who were transplanted at another hospital

Rush University Medical Center

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Transplant Summary

Overview

Attending physicians

Transplants performed

Cord blood transplants

Other programs and services

Patient survival information for this center

Total adult transplants

219

All Diseases

Transplant center resources

NMDP patient navigators

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