Medical City Plano has earned recognition among the world’s best for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy, one of the most advanced forms of life support available to patients with heart and lung failure.
Medical City Plano earned the elite Platinum Level Center of Excellence Award from the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ECMO), an international nonprofit that provides leadership in ECMO therapy. Designation as a Platinum Level Center of Excellence honors ECMO programs for extraordinary achievements reaching the highest level of evidence-based performance, innovation, satisfaction, quality outcomes, advanced staff training and ongoing clinical care for patients with cardio-respiratory system failure. Of the approximately 1,000 ECMO programs worldwide, fewer than 50 have achieved Platinum Level.
Medical City Plano has provided ECMO therapy to patients since 2019 and serves more than 100 patients each year. In December 2022, the hospital partnered with Plano Fire-Rescue to train and deploy advanced, life-preserving ECMO therapy measures in the field before arrival at the hospital. The in-hospital and out-of-hospital programs’ quality outcomes and survival rates are better than Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) benchmarks and among the world’s top for both respiratory and cardiac support…