Heart Transplant Services
Knowing you or a loved one needs a heart transplant is overwhelming. Lutheran Health Network's transplant team understands this and works together to deliver clinical expertise, emotional support and ongoing education before, during and after a heart transplant.
Lutheran Health Network's heart transplant team has guided hundreds of people from pretransplant assessment to surgery to post-operative care.
Lutheran is the only hospital in northern Indiana with heart transplant and ventricular assist, or VAD, services.
The hospital's heart transplant program has touched the lives of residents throughout northern Indiana, southern Michigan and western Ohio, providing many with a new lease on life.
Multidisciplinary Care
Heart transplant patients receive care from a team of healthcare professionals from different disciplines, or specialty areas. This team coordinates ongoing treatment and support through each step of the heart transplant journey and includes:
- Advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist
- Cardiovascular surgeons
- Anesthesiologist
- Transplant coordinator
- Social worker
- Financial coordinator
- Pharmacist
- Dietitian
- Cardiopulmonary rehab
Physicians who would like to have a patient evaluated for a ventricular assist device or heart transplant can download an evaluation form here.
Locations
Lutheran Hospital