Thank you for choosing the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at University of Minnesota Medical Center for your health care needs. We believe families are the patient’s primary strength and support and are key partners in the care team. We are committed to providing family-centered care. 

In addition to transplant services, we offer patients a varitey of additonal services and support.

Financial Services

Home Health Care Services

Nutrition Services

Patient Relations

Pharmacy Services

Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy

Social Work Services

Spiritual Health Services

Support Groups

Financial Services
When you are referred to our program, we will connect you with one of our financial services representatives. This person will help you figure out your insurance coverage for BMT. He or she can also provide you with resources for other financial assistance. Click this link to learn more about our Financial Services program.


Home Health Care Services
After you leave the hospital, you may need to have a nurse come to your home or temporary residence. The nurse can answer questions or help you to establish care routines. Some patients, for example, receive IV medicines after they leave the hospital. This may may require a home care nurse to assist with giving IV medicines and other care issues.

Home care services include:

• help administering medications
• transfusion of blood products
• pain management
• IV nutrition or tube feedings
• drawing blood or obtaining samples for lab tests, then monitoring test results

Nutrition Services
Nutrition is an important component of your care. Your doctors, nurses, dietitians, dietetic technicians and pharmacists will all work together make sure you receive the best nutitional care while you are a patient. A dietitian will be available to answer questions about your nutrition and food requests while you’re in the hospital. They can also answer questions after you go home.

Patient Relations
It is important to us that you have a positive experience at our medical center. Patient relations staff can work with you to:

• resolve any problems you may have if the hospital is not meeting your needs
• assist you with information regarding advance directives
• resolve an ethical dilemma.

Pharmacy Services
We believe in empowering patients to  fully participate in their BMT experience. This includes understanding and managing their medications.
 
Our BMT Clinical  Pharmacy  Services staff strives to provide each patient with education about their medications and the skills to manage those medications successfully. We provide these benefits through the following services:

Patient education:

• Our pharmacy staff are available both in the hospital and clinic to answer questions to help you to better understand your medications and to reduce errors.
• We will teach you to use tools that will help you mangage your medications. We will also work with you to make sure that you understand the instructions for each of your medications. 
  

Ongoing medication review: We offer ongoing review of your medications, including: 

• Drug interaction management
• Side-effect evaluation and management
• Therapeutic drug monitoring
• Medication history including non-prescription medication, vitamins and herbals.
• Maintain a continuity of care as you move from inpatient to outpatient services.

Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy
Rehabilitation Services provides a full spectrum of inpatient and outpatient services for infants, children and young adults. These services include physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy. We also provide orthotic services and assistive technology. Our therapists have extensive experience treating metabolic disorders including neurologic diseases, leukodystrophies, anemias, leukemias and other forms of cancer.

• Physical therapy provides assessment and treatment for:
• • developmental delay or developmental regression
  • strength
  • movement
  • endurance
  • coordination and functional mobility (transfers, standing, walking)
• Occupational therapy provides assessment and treatment for:
• • developmental delay or developmental regression
  • activities of daily living and self-care
  • strength
  • range of motion
  • endurance
  • coordination
  • cognitive, sensory, and visual-perceptual deficits
  • adaptive and assistive equipment
  • vocational (school/work) and avocational (leisure/play) activities.
• Speech-language pathologists evaluate and treat various speech production, language and feeding disorders that may occur after intubation, surgery, prolonged or frequent hospitalization, prolonged tube or IV feeding, or as a result of disease. Services include:
• • evaluation and treatment of oral motor weakness
  • swallowing dysfunction
  • oral aversion
  • language development delays
  • voice problems 
  • language disturbances

Social Work Services
Our program includes clinical social workers who focus solely on patients in the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program. A social worker will meet with you and your family at your very first appointment with us. A social worker is also available to support you and provide resource information throughout your stay at University of Minnesota Medical Center. Visit the Clinical Social Workers section of this Web site for more information.  

Spiritual Health Services
Facing a disease and choosing to have a BMT is a demanding process. It can be draining—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It is a life-changing experience for you and for your family. The journey through sickness to healing and well-being is very challenging.

Through interfaith ministry, our chaplains are dedicated to offering spiritual and emotional support to patients and families. The chaplains regard patient and family cultures, beliefs, values and spiritual and faith practices as important resources for healing and well-being. During times of stress, crisis, and life-threatening illness, there may be moments when patients and their loved ones are seeking the sacred. They may be trying to find meaning, hope, and peace in new or familiar ways. Our chaplains offer:

• a listening and caring presence
• spiritual and emotional support and counsel
• prayer, blessing services, rituals, worship experiences and sacraments
• help with ethical decision-making
• inspirational and educatinal resources
• coordination with leaders of various faith communities
• complementary therapies such as meditation and healing touch

The Meditation Place, on the hospital’s seventh floor, is designed to embrace and support many faith traditions. It is available for personal prayer/reflection 24 hours a day. Ecumenical Christian and Catholic worship are offered as well as Muslim Jumah prayers.