Registry inventory and published survival fields only. Not medical advice, eligibility assessment, or a referral ranking.

SRTR PSR · 7 organ types · November 2025

U.S. transplant center registry

According to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (August 2026 refresh), published waitlist stock, graft survival, and transplant volume cover 237 U.S. centers across 7 organ types; see Methodology for sourcing. Not a care recommendation.

The national picture

Kidney programs record 2.7× the transplant volume of liver in this SRTR extract, and hold 87% of the published national waitlist.

237
centers in this SRTR extract
105,852
kidney transplants recorded
94,492
kidney waitlist stock
26
TX centers (densest state)

Volume and waitlist are inventory counts from SRTR 2025-11, not survival and not a referral ranking.

94,492
Kidney waitlist
9,623
Liver waitlist
41
Heart-Lung waitlist
918
Lung waitlist
2,225
Kidney-Pancreas waitlist
666
Pancreas waitlist
198
Intestine waitlist

Waitlist stock and kidney volume share

Counts from the SRTR extract on this site. Waitlist size is stock, not a person's wait in days.

0%100%66%
Kidney is 66% of recorded transplants in this extract

Top organ types by national waitlist size

National waitlist counts by organ type (OPTN/SRTR public reports, 2025).

Kidney94492Liver9623Heart-Lung41Lung918Kidney-Pancreas2225

Volume vs waitlist stock by organ

Each organ type is placed by recorded transplant volume (x) and published national waitlist stock (y). Bubble size is the number of centers reporting that organ. Axes are inventory counts from the same SRTR extract, not wait days, eligibility, or a quality ranking.

Organ classes in the SRTR extract

Crosshair at the midpoint of the plotted organs. Kidney sits far right because it dominates both volume and waitlist stock. 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 7 entities by Transplants recorded (X) and National waitlist stock (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High volume · high waitlistLow volume · high waitlistHigh volume · low waitlistLow volume · low waitlist 050,000100,000150,000 020,00040,00060,00080,000100,000 Transplants recorded National waitlist stock Organ classes in the SRTR extract Kidney-105852, 94492KidneyLiver-39369, 9623LiverHeart-Lung-203, 41Heart-LungLung-9035, 918LungKidney-Pancreas-4202, 2225Kidney-PancreasPancreas-944, 666PancreasIntestine-422, 198Intestine
Crosshair at the midpoint of the plotted organs. Kidney sits far right because it dominates both volume and waitlist stock.

Browse by Organ Type

National SRTR inventory by organ type
Organ Centers Transplants reported National waitlist
Kidney 236 105,852 94,492
Liver 147 39,369 9,623
Heart-Lung 41 203 41
Lung 77 9,035 918
Kidney-Pancreas 126 4,202 2,225
Pancreas 101 944 666
Intestine 19 422 198

Waitlist cells say n/a when the SRTR extract has no national waitlist for that organ (never coerced to zero).

Centers with Highest 1-Year Survival Rates

Ranked by 1-year graft survival rate from SRTR Nov 2025 reports; programs with fewer than 5 transplants are excluded. Many programs report the same rate, so volume is shown beside each and equal rates are listed alphabetically, not by quality. A small program with no graft failures reports 100% on very few cases, which is why the rate alone should not rank one center above another. See what survival rates mean.

According to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients, PlainTransplant compiles 745 center×organ survival records across 237 transplant centers, last refreshed in November 2025; see our methodology for the full source list.

Editorial context for the plaintransplant dataset, methodology, comparisons, and deep dives into the underlying records.

What a 100% survival rate usually means

96 of the 536 programs that report both a 1-year survival rate and a transplant count report exactly 100.0%. Their median volume is 23 transplants; programs below 100% have a median of 252. A perfect rate is mostly a small-denominator result, so it is not comparable with a high-volume program's rate. Read the volume beside every rate.

Programs reporting exactly 100.0% 1-year survival, by transplant volume

53.1% of them performed 25 or fewer transplants.

1-1027 programs11-2524 programs26-5023 programs51-10016 programs100+6 programs

Derived from the same program_stats rows the rankings use; medians are computed over programs reporting both figures. See all research.

What to do with this

Use the SRTR inventory to place a center, then open the organ ranking for peers.

Figures are SRTR Program-Specific Report inventory and survival fields for educational reference only; they are not medical advice or a referral ranking.

About this data

How PlainTransplant works, and why you can trust these numbers

What this site is

PlainTransplant is a plain-language reference comparing 237 U.S. organ transplant centers across 7 organ types by 1-year and 3-year graft survival rates, transplant volume, and waitlist size, built from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) Program-Specific Reports.

Editorial process

  1. Source. Ingest SRTR Program-Specific Report tables (new listings and active waiting patients, 1- and 3-year graft survival, transplant volume, national expected-rate benchmarks), identified via OPTN/UNOS center codes, under HRSA contract.
  2. Verify. Center names and OPTN codes are normalized and validated; source data is loaded directly from the official SRTR release, never invented or interpolated.
  3. Publish. Rankings are computed directly from SRTR risk-adjusted survival rates. The accompanying pages describe the source, definitions, and limits of those records; ranking values are generated from the SRTR figures.

Editorial independence & corrections

PlainTransplant is independent and not affiliated with SRTR, OPTN, UNOS, HRSA, or any hospital or transplant program; it does not accept payment for coverage, placement, or rankings. To report an error or stale figure, use the corrections pathway and include the page URL and source record where possible. See the methodology for the data-table breakdown and refresh cadence.

Frequently asked

Where does PlainTransplant get its data?

All figures come from the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). SRTR publishes program-specific reports with survival rates, volume, and waitlist fields for U.S. transplant centers.

How many transplant centers does PlainTransplant cover?

PlainTransplant indexes 237 transplant centers across 7 organ types (kidney, liver, heart-lung, lung, kidney-pancreas, pancreas, and intestine), including 1-year and 3-year graft survival rates from 745 center×organ survival records.

Is PlainTransplant free?

Yes. The registry pages are free to browse, no account and no payment.

Does PlainTransplant provide medical advice?

No. PlainTransplant republishes and compares published SRTR/OPTN inventory and survival fields. It does not assess eligibility, waiting time for a person, or any care decision.

Every figure on PlainTransplant is rendered directly from SRTR Program-Specific Reports data, no number is typed in by an editor. Homepage aggregates are computed directly from SRTR Program-Specific Reports; no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a correction. Data current as of August 2026.