Excellence and ExperienceCentral 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

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