A new kidney transplant center will be opening yet this fall at Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center.

The center will be led by Dr. Johnny Hong, health leaders at the hospital announced Wednesday. A portion of the third floor of the hospital will accommodate the Mercy Health Toledo Transplant Center’s first transplant program.

“It is a great day for Mercy Health,” said Paul Clemments, vice president of service lines at Mercy Health Toledo, who described the transplant program as a significant expansion of services to the region.

Dr. Hong, who was hired more than a year ago as a multiorgan transplantation and hepatobiliary surgeon and director of the Toledo Transplant Center, has assembled a team for what he calls a significant milestone for the area.

“This is more than a professiona

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