ISMETT

ISMETT
Region of Sicily and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Location of ISMETT in the Mediterranean
Geography
Location	Via Ernesto Tricomi, 1, Palermo,  Italy
Coordinates	38°06′06″N 13°21′29″E / 38.1016374°N 13.357948°E / 38.1016374; 13.357948
Organisation
Funding	Public-private partnership
Type	Specialist
Services
Beds	70
Speciality	Organ transplantation
History
Opened	March 28, 1997
Links
Website	http://www.ismett.edu/

ISMETT, in Italian, Istituto Mediterraneo per i Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione translated as the Mediterranean Institute for Transplantation and Advanced Specialized Therapies, is a center for organ transplantation located in Palermo, Italy. ISMETT was founded in 1997 as a partnership between the Region of Sicily, the Civico and Cervello hospitals in Palermo, and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).^[1]

ISMETT primarily specializes in performing all types of organ transplantations,^[2] using both deceased and living donor techniques. ISMETT has 70 beds (14 ICU, 21 in semi-intensive, and 35 inpatient), 7 outpatient beds, 4 operating rooms, a hospital pharmacy and laboratory analysis, infectious diseases and pathology in a facility that covers an area of 130,000-square-foot (12,000 m²).