The UPMC Heart Transplant Program awarded Optum Center of Excellence for heart transplantation.

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    "title": "The UPMC Heart Transplant Program awarded Optum Center of Excellence for heart transplantation.",
    "excerpt": "The UPMC Heart Transplant Program awarded Optum Center of Excellence for heart transplantation.\n\nMay 18, 2026\n\nThe UPMC Heart Transplant Program has been recognized as a Center of Excellence for heart transplantation with Optum as part of their credentialed Centers of Excellence transplant network. Optum's COE network includes only the most experienced and statistically successful health care providers based on thorough annual evaluations. Their success correlates with high volumes and deep levels of provider experience and specialization.\n\n\"We are proud to be recognized as an Optum Center of Excellence,\" says David Kaczorowski, MD, surgical director of the UPMC Heart Transplant Program and chief of adult cardiac surgery at the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute. \"It reflects our commitment to advancing complex heart failure care and ensuring patients have access to highly specialized, multidisciplinary expertise when they need it most.\"\n\nUPMC directly partners with transplant case managers to enhance patient care. Its partnership with case managers is key to helping patients and their families navigate the transplant process. Upmcphysicianresources strive to provide a seamless referral process, on-going education, and transplant resources for case managers to share with patients, including education about living donor transplantation, resources for finding a living donor, and...",
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    "published_at": "2026-05-18T00:00:00Z",
    "article_sentence": "The UPMC Heart Transplant Program has been recognized as a Center of Excellence for heart transplantation with Optum as part of their credentialed Centers of Excellence transplant network."
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