A key component of the new tower is the UT/Methodist Transplant Institute, consolidating inpatient and outpatient services into one location. Three of the tower’s 18 operating rooms dedicated to transplant.
“As the major academic campus and principal teaching hospital of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), it is important that we are pioneering advances in medical care. Shorb Tower was designed to do exactly that,” said Roland Cruickshank, president, Methodist University Hospital. “A facility such as this sets the stage for us to recruit the very best medical talent to join our already outstanding medical staff and caregivers.”