LifeLink HealthCare Institute

Our commitment: to work with all patients referred to us in consultation regardless of their ability to pay, and assist them whenever possible in securing the necessary funding for their care and support through our social services department.

The LifeLink HealthCare Institute is a not-for-profit medical organization established in July of 1994. It is one of six divisions within LifeLink Foundation, a pacesetter in organ and tissue recovery and transplantation since 1972.

Conceived by Dana L. Shires, M.D., F.A.C.P., the HealthCare Institute first established a successful kidney transplant program, followed by the recruitment of a comprehensive team for a liver transplant program as well as a talented transplant cardiology group. LifeLink surgeons also perform pancreas transplantation.

These nationally recognized specialists were recruited to meet the community need for comprehensive medical, surgical and transplant care for patients in end-stage organ failure, and they have helped the Institute evolve into a full-service disease process and treatment center.  Medical and surgical options up to and including transplant are shared with patients from all over the state and sometimes from other states, as well. Our multidisciplinary team of physicians and surgeons constantly communicate with referring doctors throughout Florida, encouraging early referrals so the most appropriate course of treatment for each patient can be determined. 

The Institute works with Tampa General Hospital, a nationally recognized transplant center, All Children's Hospital and the University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine.

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