Central Ohio’s only adult transplant center, the Ohio State Comprehensive Transplant Center is a world leader in life-saving care and transplant research.
- Top 20 transplant program, by volume, in the United States
- 13,200 solid organ transplants since 1967, a milestone achieved by less than 7% of all U.S. transplant centers
- In-House Organ Assessment and Repair Center performs essential research to increase the number of donor organs available for transplantation with organ perfusion for lungs, livers, hearts and kidneys
- Multidisciplinary research collaboration with Nationwide Children’s Hospital at the Center for the Epidemiological Study of Organ Failure and Transplantation (CESOT) to improve outcomes in transplantation worldwide
- Members of the Acute Liver Failure Study Group, a collaborative network of 28 hospitals that have studied more than 3,000 cases of acute liver failure
- Perform ex vivo organ perfusion for hearts, lungs, kidneys and livers - all helping to grow the donor pool of organs
- One of the largest and most experienced liver and kidney-pancreas centers in the world
- Ability to perform living donor transplants of both the kidney and liver
- Ability to perform large living kidney donor (LKD) chains, including a 20-person LKD chain that is one of the largest
ever performed at a single-institution in the United States - One of very few transplant centers in the United States to have an in-house Organ Recovery Team that facilitates organ recovery logistics for all regional and national organ offers
- Recognized as one of America's Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for the 32nd consecutive year with 8 nationally ranked specialties