This data is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult your transplant team for decisions about your care. Rankings show centers by highest survival rate and do not constitute a recommendation.

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Liver Transplant Centers, Ranked by 1-Year Survival Rate

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Centers with highest 1-year graft survival rate from SRTR November 2025, limited to programs reporting at least 5 liver transplants in the period (below that, a single case can swing the rate by 20+ points). 119 centers meet that floor.

Note: Survival rate alone does not determine the best center for your situation. Centers that accept higher-risk patients or sicker patients may have lower survival rates. Discuss your options with your transplant team.

Data Insight

This ranking orders 119 liver transplant programs from the SRTR November 2025 Program-Specific Report cohort by risk-adjusted 1-year graft survival rate. Graft survival measures the estimated probability that a transplanted liver is still functioning 12 months after surgery. SRTR calculates these estimates using statistical models that adjust for recipient characteristics such as age, diagnosis, and medical history, so centers treating higher-risk patient populations are not penalized simply for accepting more complex cases.

Across these 119 reporting programs (each with at least 5 reported transplants), the average 1-year graft survival rate is approximately 91.5%. The highest-rated program in the current cohort is Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center in Wisconsin at 100.0%. The median program reports 92.7% 1-year survival. The ranked programs collectively performed approximately 38,557 liver transplants during the reporting window. An estimated 9,398 candidates sit on these programs' combined waiting lists.

Rankings like this one are useful as a starting point, but survival rate is not the only factor that matters when choosing a transplant center. Centers that accept sicker patients, run pediatric programs, or focus on difficult cases may report lower absolute survival while providing appropriate care. OPTN allocation rules also mean that geographic proximity to donor hospitals can affect wait times more than list position. SRTR excludes programs that fell below minimum case-volume thresholds, so some active liver programs are not ranked here. Reports update approximately twice yearly. This page reflects factual SRTR data and is not medical advice.

Rank Center State 1-yr Survival 3-yr Survival Transplants Waitlist
1 Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center Wisconsin 100.0% 78.5% 154 27
2 Centura Porter Adventist Hospital Colorado 100.0% 80.0% 52 7
3 Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston Georgia 100.0% 100.0% 76 7
4 Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center Texas 100.0% 92.3% 92 41
5 Texas Children's Hospital Texas 100.0% N/A 137 14
6 UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 100.0% 100.0% 65 22
7 VA Portland Health Care System Oregon 100.0% 78.4% 82 16
8 Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Wisconsin 99.0% 85.8% 279 59
9 Cleveland Clinic Florida Weston Florida 98.4% 84.9% 192 59
10 The Queen's Medical Center Hawaii 98.0% 85.6% 68 28
11 UF Health Shands Hospital Florida 97.8% 91.0% 354 44
12 University Hospitals of Cleveland Ohio 97.6% 94.1% 171 36
13 UT Southwestern Medical Center/ Texas 97.5% 87.5% 531 220
14 Westchester Medical Center New York 96.5% 85.3% 279 49
15 University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview Minnesota 96.3% 92.6% 364 52
16 Intermountain Medical Center Utah 96.3% 89.4% 320 25
17 University Hospital, University of Texas Health Science Center Texas 96.1% 92.9% 372 182
18 Willis-Knighton Medical Center Louisiana 96.0% 59.2% 67 37
19 Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix Arizona 95.8% 76.5% 295 13
20 New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center New York 95.8% 86.8% 225 87
21 William Beaumont Hospital Michigan 95.5% 95.5% 148 41
22 Indiana University Health Indiana 95.3% 86.1% 551 99
23 UAMS Medical Center Arkansas 95.3% 86.0% 160 23
24 New York University Medical Center New York 95.2% 90.1% 189 39
25 North Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health New York 95.2% 92.1% 113 58
26 Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital Texas 95.2% 83.7% 454 83
27 Memorial Hermann Hospital, University of Texas at Houston Texas 95.1% 85.8% 152 30
28 Yale New Haven Hospital Connecticut 94.8% 83.1% 165 100
29 University of California San Diego Medical Center California 94.7% 87.7% 354 68
30 University of Virginia Health Sciences Center Virginia 94.7% 86.0% 321 28
31 Keck Hospital of USC California 94.7% 86.5% 620 219
32 University of Washington Medical Center Washington 94.5% 93.4% 426 87
33 Geisinger Medical Center Pennsylvania 94.4% 90.5% 62 32
34 University of Kentucky Medical Center Kentucky 94.4% 90.4% 313 118
35 Piedmont Hospital Georgia 94.3% 88.4% 566 146
36 Florida Hospital Medical Center Florida 94.3% 83.4% 258 36
37 Montefiore Medical Center New York 94.3% 81.0% 193 20
38 Duke University Hospital North Carolina 94.3% 87.0% 361 38
39 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 94.2% 86.2% 545 163
40 Auxilio Mutuo Hospital Puerto Rico 93.9% 89.8% 152 17
41 VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System Pennsylvania 93.9% 74.6% 144 45
42 Mayo Clinic Hospital Arizona 93.9% 86.2% 757 101
43 Stanford Health Care California 93.7% 85.4% 473 138
44 Loma Linda University Medical Center California 93.5% 83.9% 483 72
45 Oregon Health & Science University Oregon 93.5% 95.8% 269 79
46 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Massachusetts 93.5% 84.1% 291 16
47 Rochester Methodist Hospital (Mayo Clinic) Minnesota 93.4% 90.5% 498 101
48 Ochsner Foundation Hospital Louisiana 93.3% 84.8% 577 77
49 Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center New York 93.3% 85.3% 315 61
50 Integris Baptist Medical Center Oklahoma 93.2% 83.7% 313 99
51 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center California 93.1% 84.9% 438 71
52 California Pacific Medical Center California 93.0% 88.3% 337 93
53 CHI St. Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center Texas 92.9% 88.0% 531 212
54 Loyola University Medical Center Illinois 92.9% 85.1% 259 47
55 Henry Ford Hospital Michigan 92.9% 86.1% 392 119
56 Methodist Dallas Medical Center Texas 92.9% 87.0% 310 75
57 Allegheny General Hospital Pennsylvania 92.8% 82.0% 157 27
58 Medical University of South Carolina South Carolina 92.8% 80.9% 329 109
59 Northwestern Memorial Hospital Illinois 92.7% 82.4% 367 68
60 Tampa General Hospital Florida 92.7% 85.3% 607 140
61 University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center California 92.7% 85.9% 1,059 490
62 Carolinas Medical Center North Carolina 92.6% 88.4% 297 35
63 University of Illinois Medical Center Illinois 92.6% 80.8% 211 31
64 Mayo Clinic Florida Florida 92.5% 88.4% 522 97
65 University of California San Francisco Medical Center California 92.5% 91.4% 778 414
66 Barnes-Jewish Hospital Missouri 92.3% 81.4% 476 62
67 University of Cincinnati Medical Center Ohio 92.3% 85.6% 892 16
68 Rush University Medical Center Illinois 92.0% 88.5% 160 39
69 Johns Hopkins Hospital Maryland 91.9% 90.0% 509 290
70 Vanderbilt University Medical Center Tennessee 91.9% 85.2% 605 134
71 St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center Arizona 91.9% 81.1% 99 16
72 University of Colorado Hospital/Health Science Center Colorado 91.8% 86.2% 374 95
73 Tulane Medical Center Louisiana 91.7% 87.4% 72 7
74 Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center Pennsylvania 91.7% 79.2% 130 6
75 University of Alabama Hospital Alabama 91.7% 86.5% 463 140
76 University Hospital New Jersey 91.6% 92.3% 244 67
77 Swedish Medical Center Washington 91.6% 82.1% 191 49
78 OU Medical Center Oklahoma 91.6% 87.5% 115 9
79 SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital Missouri 91.5% 93.2% 152 50
80 The Nebraska Medical Center Nebraska 91.4% 87.8% 392 82
81 Albert Einstein Medical Center Pennsylvania 91.3% 78.6% 323 42
82 University of Michigan Medical Center Michigan 91.3% 86.7% 278 42
83 University of Maryland Medical System Maryland 91.2% 84.3% 439 175
84 St Luke's Hospital of Kansas City Missouri 91.1% 82.4% 114 27
85 University of North Carolina Hospitals North Carolina 91.0% 88.9% 151 32
86 Baylor University Medical Center Texas 91.0% 82.9% 428 32
87 Mount Sinai Medical Center New York 91.0% 82.9% 729 104
88 UMass Memorial Medical Center Massachusetts 90.8% 83.0% 430 222
89 University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Wisconsin 90.6% 85.3% 401 90
90 The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Ohio 90.5% 83.5% 633 68
91 Baylor Scott and White All Saints Medical Center-Fort Worth Texas 90.5% 86.7% 393 20
92 Hartford Hospital Connecticut 90.4% 88.1% 146 69
93 Ohio State University Medical Center Ohio 90.1% 87.1% 575 89
94 Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts 90.0% 85.9% 578 172
95 Presbyterian/St Luke's Medical Center Colorado 89.9% 84.1% 220 47
96 University of Kansas Hospital Kansas 89.8% 84.3% 290 140
97 Emory University Hospital Georgia 89.7% 85.8% 494 70
98 NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Univ. Medical Center New York 89.6% 87.3% 351 98
99 Largo Medical Center Florida 89.6% 84.7% 74 12
100 Houston Methodist Hospital Texas 89.3% 80.8% 1,007 377
101 University of Chicago Medical Center Illinois 89.2% 83.5% 261 59
102 University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pennsylvania 89.0% 84.6% 331 94
103 University of Utah Medical Center Utah 89.0% 89.7% 161 36
104 Jackson Memorial Hospital University of Miami School of Medicine Florida 88.9% 84.7% 636 113
105 Banner University Medical Center-Tucson Arizona 88.0% 68.4% 51 13
106 Georgetown University Medical Center District of Columbia 87.9% 82.6% 516 212
107 Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Pennsylvania 87.7% 85.2% 361 101
108 Medical College of Virginia Hospitals Virginia 87.6% 88.0% 584 213
109 Methodist University Hospital Tennessee 87.0% 81.6% 419 38
110 Lahey Clinic Medical Center Massachusetts 86.6% 85.6% 269 73
111 Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center New Jersey 84.4% 87.2% 132 29
112 Jewish Hospital Kentucky 81.0% 84.0% 98 10
113 University of Mississippi Medical Center Mississippi 80.0% 87.9% 181 37
114 Temple University Hospital Pennsylvania 78.6% 79.4% 73 12
115 Scripps Green Hospital California 77.2% 84.4% 148 41
116 University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Transplant Programs Iowa 71.4% 89.7% 144 20
117 Avera McKennan Hospital South Dakota 66.7% 61.9% 90 0
118 Broward Health Medical Center Florida 50.0% 77.5% 66 0
119 Childrens Hospital Los Angeles California 50.0% N/A 116 20

Featured Liver Programs

A quick-scan card view of top liver transplant programs. Use the full ranking table above for complete comparisons.

Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center
Wisconsin · Rank #1 · 100.0% 1-yr
Centura Porter Adventist Hospital
Colorado · Rank #2 · 100.0% 1-yr
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston
Georgia · Rank #3 · 100.0% 1-yr
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Texas · Rank #4 · 100.0% 1-yr
Texas Children's Hospital
Texas · Rank #5 · 100.0% 1-yr
Compare Liver centers side-by-side → Liver overview

How to Read This Ranking

Survival rankings for liver transplantation reflect a single, well-defined outcome: the probability that the transplanted organ remains functional one year after surgery, adjusted for differences in patient mix. Two centers reporting the same raw survival number can sit very far apart in a risk-adjusted ranking when one accepts a much sicker waiting list than the other. SRTR's hierarchical Bayesian models lean toward the national average for low-volume centers, so a small program with five transplants in the cohort window will move less in either direction than a large program with five hundred, the ranking is most stable for centers in the middle of the volume distribution.

Risk adjustment matters because not every liver candidate carries the same baseline risk. Recipients with advanced disease, multiple prior failed transplants, donor-recipient size mismatches, or immunological sensitization will have lower expected survival before the procedure begins. SRTR's models subtract this expected survival from observed survival to produce a center-specific performance estimate. A center that consistently accepts the most complex referrals, for instance, regional referral hospitals taking patients other programs decline, can outperform on risk-adjusted survival while reporting lower raw numbers. The ranking column you see here is the adjusted figure, not the raw one.

Patients and referring clinicians use these rankings as one signal among several. Distance from home, insurance coverage, surgeon volume in your specific subtype, willingness to accept marginal donors, and program-specific eligibility criteria all weigh into a real-world transplant decision. The rankings here describe the typical outcome envelope a program has produced in the SRTR cohort window, they do not, and cannot, predict your individual outcome. Always discuss center selection with your transplant nephrologist, hepatologist, cardiologist, or pulmonologist, who can correlate published survival data with your specific clinical profile.

Caveats and Limitations

  • SRTR Program-Specific Reports are released semi-annually (May and November). Rankings shown here reflect the most recent published cohort; some single-event changes at a program may not yet be visible.
  • Programs below SRTR's minimum case-volume threshold are excluded from comparative rankings to preserve statistical reliability. Such programs may still be active and may report individual outcomes elsewhere.
  • One-year graft survival is the SRTR's primary public outcome but not the only metric that matters. Patient survival, three-year graft survival, time to transplant from listing, and post-transplant readmission rates each tell a different story about program performance.
  • Geographic concentration of transplant centers means a top-ranked program may be impractical for patients in rural or under-served regions. The Compare and State views allow filtering by geography to surface programs that are realistic options for a specific patient.

Data Sources

  • SRTR Program-Specific Reports (November 2025 release) - risk-adjusted 1-year graft survival estimates for liver transplant programs. srtr.org
  • OPTN liver allocation policy - policy governing liver distribution nationally. optn.transplant.hrsa.gov

About These Rankings

This data is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult your transplant team for decisions about your care. Rankings show centers by highest survival rate and do not constitute a recommendation.

Source: SRTR Program-Specific Reports, November 2025 SRTR Program-Specific Reports, November 2025 Centers are ranked by estimated 1-year graft survival probability for adult recipients. Centers without sufficient case volume are excluded per SRTR statistical methodology

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.