VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System
Location
Stem Cell Transplant Center
1310 24th South (11T)
Nashville, TN 37075
Direct phone: (615) 873-6373
Total transplants by cell source
- Marrow: 1
- PBSC: 55
- Cord Blood: 0
- Autologous (PBSC or Marrow): 0
About the center
Overview
The Stem Cell Transplant Center at VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (VA TVHS) in Nashville was established in 1995. We are the largest center among VA transplant centers in the country, performing the most allogeneic transplants annually. The first unrelated donor transplant was performed in 1995. VA TVHS offers related, unrelated, and haploidentical donor allogeneic transplants and provides comprehensive post-transplant care. This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1995 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since that date.
This center has been performing allogeneic transplants since 1995 and has been an NMDP/Be The Match transplant center since June 2013.
Attending physicians
Adult - Wichai Chinratanalab, Brian Engelhardt, Tae Kim, Bipin Savani, Salyka Sengsayadeth
Transplants performed
Marrow/PBSC and single cord
Cord blood transplants performed on
Adult only
Other programs and services
We provide local housing to our Veterans and their caregiver during their stay. Our Veteran's Hospital is the only FACT accredited VA Transplant Center and our team consists of Coordinators, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, Social Workers, PharmD's, Phycology, Physical Therapy and a multitude of other services when needed.
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:
- Patients who had their FIRST ALLOGENEIC transplant (cells from a related or unrelated donor/cord blood) during 2018, 2019, 2020, 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 112 patients.
The actual 1-year survival of these patients is 74.1%.
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 61.2% and 77.5%.
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
56
Transplants reported (From January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 as reported by the centers)
Marrow | PBSC | Cord blood | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Allogeneic | ||||
Related donor | 1 | 21 | 0 | 22 |
Unrelated donor | 0 | 34 | 0 | 34 |
Total allogeneic | 1 | 55 | 0 | 56 |
Autologous | ||||
Both marrow & PBSC 0 |
-- | 0 | ||
Total combined | ||||
56 | 0 | 56 |
Transplants by disease
All diseases
Number of transplants by age reported from January 1, 2020 to December 31st, 2021 (includes marrow, PBSC and cord blood)
0-18 | 19-44 | 45-64 | 65+ | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Related | 0 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 21 |
Unrelated | 0 | 4 | 11 | 19 | 34 |
Autologous | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 0 | 10 | 21 | 24 | 55 |
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:
- U.S. Transplant Data by Center report at bloodcell.transplant.hrsa.gov
- List of diseases
Additional information
Transplant center resources
Transplant center coordinator:
Gwendolyn Morrison
(615) 873-8398
Email: gwendolyn.morrison@va.gov
If you have questions about costs and financial services at this center, please call the transplant center's direct phone number.
Be The Match 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