Why Choose Us?

Choosing a blood and marrow transplant center can be a difficult and overwhelming decision. We hope that it will ease your mind and instill confidence that, when having your transplant performed at Northside Hospital, you are in good hands. NH-BMT is one of the most qualified and experienced transplant centers in the United States. The NH-BMT Program meets the criteria of an excellent transplant center. *

Program achievements:

The NH-BMT Program meets the criteria of an excellent transplant center.

  • BMT physician team has completed post-hematology/oncology fellowship training in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

  • Highly trained Team that includes a dedicated program health psychologist, social worker, clinical BMT PharmD’s, nutritional services, physical therapy and chaplain services

  • State-of-the-art facilities

  • Comprehensive quality management program

  • Among the BEST survival outcomes in United States

    • ONLY BMT program in the country, and the ONLY BMT program in Georgia, to achieve survival outcomes that significantly exceeded the expected survival rate for allogeneic and unrelated donor transplants for the last 15 consecutive reporting cycles (2009-2023). **

  • BMTGA physicians coordinate pre- and post-transplant care with your referring physician. Be assured that treatment recommendations will be the most current and state-of-the-art.

  • Access to cutting-edge Clinical Trials so patients do not have to travel outside their community.

  • Collaboration with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute on Innovative Research Partnership: This groundbreaking Blood Cancer Research Partnership (BCRP), dana-farber.org/BCRP, will bring clinical trial testing of innovative blood cancer therapies to community oncology settings across the country. NH-BMT is one of ten sites who have been selected to participate in this prestigious partnership.

  • NCI- NCORP: Northside Hospital Cancer Institute and Lewis Cancer and Research Pavilion have partnered with Georgia CORE to participate in NCORP. After a successful first five years, a statewide cancer research consortium has been awarded a six-year grant expected to result in more than $11 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to enroll even more Georgians in important clinical trials.

NH-BMT Program: A National Leader in Blood and Marrow Transplants

  • For the past fifteen consecutive years (2009 – 2023**), the Program’s related and unrelated allogeneic donor one-year survival outcomes have been among the BEST in the country, and it is the ONLY program that has exceeded predicted one-year allogenic transplant survival in the nation for these fifteen consecutive years.

  • Provides compassionate and personalized care.

  • Leading-edge clinical research trials are available, so patients do not have to travel to receive treatment. Refer to Cooperative Group Affiliations

  • Satisfaction survey results consistently are above the 95th percentile for physician care, nursing care and overall hospital experience.***

* The American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT), The Foundation for Cellular Therapy (FACT) and the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) are three bone marrow transplant governing organizations that provide patients and family members with detailed information on how to identify an excellent transplant center: outstanding survival outcomes, experienced or trained staff, a comprehensive quality management program, and state-of-the-art facilities.
**For the fifteen consecutive years (2009–2023), NH-BMT achieved survival outcomes that significantly exceeded the expected range, as reported in the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research's Final 2023 Transplant Center Specific Survival Report, December 2023, and from reported outcome data from Be The Match®. There were 175 adult and pediatric transplant centers included in the analysis. This survival information includes only patients who received their first allogeneic transplant between January 1, 2019, and December 31, 2021, using unrelated or related donors, and who had reported follow-up. Specific transplant center information can be found at bethematch.org.
*** 2023 Press Ganey HCAHPS Regulatory Survey