Working together: referring/community physicians and transplant specialists
To refer a patient for transplant evaluation, consult with a specialist, or initiate a transfer request, call our DocLine at 844-285-4555 (available 24/7)
Community physicians’ role in patient care:
- Ongoing patient care and case management
- Referral to UCHealth for transplant evaluation
- Provide patient clinical records for transplant evaluation
- Co-manage plan of care after initial surgical recovery
Transplant specialists’ role in patient care:
- Pre-transplant evaluation (clinical, psychosocial and surgical suitability for transplant)
- Listing patient on national waiting list
- Coordinate care plan in tandem with community physician
- Ongoing communication with community physician after every pre-transplant visit with patient
- Transplantation and surgical recovery management
- Implement immunosuppression protocols
- Calibrate care and medications for 30-90 days post transplant
- Provide progress reports to community physician during peri- and post-op phases