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Sarah Cannon Transplant & Cellular Therapy Program at St. David’s South Austin Medical Center

Location

Sarah Cannon Transplant & Cellular Therapy Program at St. David’s South Austin Medical Center
South Austin Medical Center 6C BMT Unit
901 W. Ben White Blvd
Austin, TX 78704
Direct phone: 512-816-8684

Total transplants by cell source

From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022
  • Marrow: 6
  • PBSC: 79
  • Cord Blood: 0
  • Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 192
Performs adult transplants

Overview

St. David’s South Austin Medical Center, which is part of St. David’s HealthCare, is a 368-bed acute care facility offering a range of complex specialties and sub-specialties, including a nationally accredited oncology program with the area’s only adult Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program; a trauma program that includes a Level II trauma center, with a dedicated Shock Trauma Intensive Care Unit, to treat the most severely injured and critical patients; comprehensive cardiac, stroke and orthopedic programs; full-service maternity and newborn care; robotic services; and two full-service emergency centers in the communities of Bee Cave and Bastrop.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2014 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since December 2023.

Attending physicians

Adult - Aravind Ramakrishnan

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC only

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

About the center

Overview

St. David’s South Austin Medical Center, which is part of St. David’s HealthCare, is a 368-bed acute care facility offering a range of complex specialties and sub-specialties, including a nationally accredited oncology program with the area’s only adult Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program; a trauma program that includes a Level II trauma center, with a dedicated Shock Trauma Intensive Care Unit, to treat the most severely injured and critical patients; comprehensive cardiac, stroke and orthopedic programs; full-service maternity and newborn care; robotic services; and two full-service emergency centers in the communities of Bee Cave and Bastrop.

This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 2014 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since December 2023.

Attending physicians

Adult - Aravind Ramakrishnan

Transplants performed

Marrow/PBSC only

Cord blood transplants performed on

Adult only

Overall center survival


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:

  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 113 patients.

The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 74.3%.

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 69.5% and 84.4%.

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.

Total transplants

Total transplants


277

Transplants reported (From January 1, 2021 to December 31st, 2022 as reported by the centers)

Marrow PBSC Cord blood Total
Allogeneic
Related donor 4 36 0 40
Unrelated donor 2 43 0 45
Total allogeneic 6 79 0 85
Autologous
Both marrow & PBSC
192
-- 192
Total combined
277 0 277

Transplants by disease

All diseases

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

0-18 19-44 45-64 65+ Total
Related 0 16 20 3 39
Unrelated 0 8 21 16 45
Autologous 0 17 91 84 192
Total 0 41 132 103 276

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 for this disease can be found:

Additional information

Transplant center resources

Transplant center coordinator:
Betsy Jacunski
214 816-5603
Email: julia.jacunski@stdavids.com

Financial representative:
Barbara Van Niel
512-816-8677
Email: barbara.vanniel@stdavids.com

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

Survivorship program


No survivorship program information is available. Contact the center for information about post-transplant care.