Vanderbilt is one of only four medical centers in the United States approved to provide heart transplantation to the veteran population. In fact, approximately one-third of the annual heart transplants performed at Vanderbilt are patients from the Nashville-VA Medical Center.

The Vanderbilt Heart Transplant Program is a Medicare-designated program. Such designation is awarded after a panel of experts in immunology, cardiology, cardiac surgery, and transplantation biology, evaluated our outcomes, experience, expertise and institutional commitment.