This group provides support and education for the transplant recipient, caregivers, and family members.  For details about their every other month meetings, call a member of the group at 541-9609 Monday through Thursday evenings from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (Click for overview of Organ Transplant resources)

This professionally facilitated group provides hope and information for people and their families involved in any phase of lung transplantation.  For more details, call a member of the group at 704/607-6331 any day 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Click for overview of Organ Transplant resources)

This monthly group is for people who have had or are waiting for a liver transplant or who have any liver disease.  It's also for their families.  They provide education, mutual emotional support, and useful medical information.  To learn the details about the group, call Mary (a member of the group) at 704/888-0592 any day from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.  If you would like to talk with someone before attending the group who cares and knows what you are going through, click here to see their list of listeners. (Click for overview of Organ Transplant resources)

This monthly group is for people with any chronic kidney disease, their family, their friends, and their support people around them.  It's a place to share experiences and somtimes hear speakers covering topics of special interest. For details about their monthly evening meetings at Carolinas Medical Center, please call Sammy, the group's contact, at 704/503-6900 extension 213 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  (Click for overview of Organ Transplant resources)

The Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Support Group (2001) (815,815/775)

This service provides comprehensive data and referral assistance for nonprofit and government resources in the NC counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, and Anson counties and in or near the city of Mooresville, NC.  If you are calling on a landline or residential phone in one of those counties, dial 2-1-1.  If that fails, if you are calling on a cell phone, or if you are calling from anywhere else in NC, call 866/744-7778.  For calls from out of NC, use their local number of 704/377-1100. Although they are open 24 hours a day, you may wish to call weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for non-emergency questions.

The friendly staff at this full service library can help you research any medical topic using their up-to-date computers, databases, journals and books.  No previous research experience or medical knowledge is required. Click here for details or call them at 704-384-6393.

MedLinePlus

This service of the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health is one of the better one-stop shops for beginning your search on the internet for medical information.  For those of you who live in Mecklenburg and Union counties in NC, we recommend that you contact the Health Library for more personal assistance from the experts there in searching for reliable medical information. Click here for their details.

Click to link to any of these lists of national groups: 

The Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine Index
The Genetic Alliance
NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases) Database

Click here to branch to the American Self-Help Clearinghouse listing of toll-free phone numbers for a wide variety of topics.