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Transplant referrals
Working together: referring/community physicians and transplant specialists.
For a physician-to-physician consultation, or to initiate a transfer request,
call our DocLine at 844.285.4555 (available 24/7).
For providers and patients, submit referrals for:
Heart transplant
Tel: 720.848.0850
Fax: 720.848.0851
Lung transplant
Tel: 720.848.2241
Fax: 720.848.2242
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