The UofL Health – Brown Cancer Center maintains a 16-bed specialty care, bone marrow transplant unit at UofL Health – UofL Hospital for the Blood Cancers, Cellular Therapeutics and Transplant (BCT) Program. The program has been recognized as high performing in Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myeloma by U.S. News & World Report.
The unit primarily cares for patients who are undergoing treatment for blood cancers and receiving a bone marrow transplant, also known as a stem cell transplant. Learn more about stem cell transplants here. However, with the increased need for cellular therapies, more patients are staying on the unit for treatments such as TILs and CAR T-cell therapy.
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Within the unit, physicians are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays and weekends. Equipped with complete monitoring systems, staff are able to continuously monitor patient progress.
Each patient room in the unit is private and includes a private restroom. Rooms are complete with fixtures that help protect patients from infection, including a HEPA-filtered air handling system, special flooring, and copper fixtures with antimicrobial properties.
Patients who need extended stays and their families have access to a kitchenette and laundry facilities within UofL Hospital. Many rooms in the unit even include a sleeping area for family members who are accompanying patients during their stays, but many patients who live locally and have good family support may be eligible to have a transplant on an outpatient basis, rather than having an extended stay in the hospital.
The unit is set to expand with the opening of the UofL Hospital West Tower in 2025.