Read the latest news from Donor Care Network Centers of Excellence, including awards, kidney transplant news, and kidney donor stories.
To improve the health of would-be kidney donors, the USC Transplant Institute of Keck Medicine of USC is launching a unique living donor wellness pilot program that will help donation candidates make sustainable lifestyle changes.
Keck Medical Center of USCAs medical institutions around the country intensify efforts to eliminate structural racism from their systems and practices, UC San Francisco faculty have been at the forefront of this pursuit in kidney medicine.
UCSF Medical CenterOnce again, Brigham and Women’s Hospital has been recognized as a top hospital on U.S. News & World Report’s 2021 Honor Roll of Best Hospitals. The Brigham was ranked 14th by the publication, with four specialties earning a spot in the Top 10.
Brigham and Women's Hospital Living Donor CenterNewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is ranked No. 1 in New York and No. 7 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. This is the 21st consecutive year NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is the top-ranked hospital in New York.
NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill CornellLegacy Health has achieved something that no other health system in the region can match. The federal government awarded three Legacy hospitals for delivering five-star quality care to our communities, giving Legacy the most high-quality hospitals of any system in the region. Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center in…
Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, Transplant ServicesA 5-year-old’s need for a new kidney led to a paired exchange kidney transplant that united three families from across Minnesota.
University of Minnesota Medical CenterThe UW Health Transplant Center performed 64 paired kidney exchanges in 2020, more than any other transplant center in the country.
University of Wisconsin-MadisonDuring the 2020 calendar year, 262 patients received kidney and/or pancreas transplants at Wake Forest Baptist Health, which is the highest annual total in the 50-year history of Wake Forest Baptist’s Abdominal Organ Transplant Program.
Atrium Health Wake Forest BaptistOn December 9, 2020, Gianna Graw saved four lives and became the first patient to make a “good samaritan” kidney donation through Hackensack University Medical Center’s partnership with National Kidney Registry (NKR), an organization that facilitates living donor kidney transplants.
Hackensack Meridian Health Medical Center