Piedmont Transplant Institute

Reviews

• RS

  Rene Scaife

  Dec 13, 2025
  5.0
  Very professional and excellent patient/doctor bedside manner!
• DC

  Dan Cart

  Nov 4, 2025
  3.0
  The doctors and staff are good, and patients receive good care. It's the slow liver transplant process that only gets 3 stars, even less. Wait times are too long and based solely or, at least, primarily on a MELD score that doesn't tell the whole story. When you're really sick but strong enough for a transplant, you have to wait because the MELD score says you're not sick enough. Then you become too sick for a transplant. Even a cancer developing in the liver doesn't seem to speed up the process. First, the cancer has to grow to a certain size before they will treat it. After about 3 months, they finally treat the cancer, then follow-up with at least 2 scans (the first after 3 months and the second 3 months after that) before they elevate a patient up on the transplant list. The whole process takes upwards to 9 months. Why? By this time the patient weakens and dies from all the complications of cirrhosis. Although it killed the cancer cells, the internal radiation treatment for the cancer in my son's liver seems to have made his condition worse. He lost his appetite and started having breathing problems. He became very weak and unstable. My son was on the transplant list a long time and should have been elevated up on the transplant list as soon as the small cancer was discovered (January, 2025) or earlier, instead of waiting around to see if it would spread. A transplant would have taken care of the cancer and cirrohsis and probably would have saved his life. Instead, he didn't even live long enough for the second scan and died in September.
• CM

  Camiah Mingorance

  Mar 15, 2019
  5.0
  The staff here takes very good care of their patients. Every detail of their medication, their food intake, water intake blood pressure, blood work, pulse, weight, breathing, wound care...all aspects of their health and recovery are considered and taken into consideration. Our transplant coordinator called us after our visit today to make adjustments to my husband's medication based off of his blood work results. The care is impeccable. In addition to the excellent standard of care, the doctors, nurses and staff are kind and friendly making you feel much more at ease and relaxed. Having a transplant is stressful, but Piedmont Transplant has addressed the anxiety made the experience so much more enjoyable. Words can't express how grateful I am for this incredible team!