SRTR rankings · Lung · November 2025 cohort

Lung transplant centers by 1-year survival

64 lung programs meet SRTR's minimum case-volume floor in the November 2025 cohort. Rankings order risk-adjusted 1-year graft survival, not a recommendation to choose a center.

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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.

According to SRTR Program-Specific Reports (November 2025), 64 lung programs meet the published case-volume floor and average 88.7% risk-adjusted 1-year graft survival; University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Transplant Programs leads at 97.7%.

Survival is not volume

University of Iowa Hospitals an… in Iowa leads risk-adjusted 1-year graft survival at 97.7% (#1 of 64) but ranks #48 by program volume at 74 transplants; Temple University Hospital in Pennsylvania leads volume at 441 (#1 of 64) with 85.8% survival (rank #52).

97.7%
University of Iowa Hospitals an… survival #1: #48
University of Iowa Hospitals an… volume rank: 441
Temple University Hospital transplants #1: #52
Temple University Hospital survival rank

SRTR risk-adjusted 1-year graft survival and transplant counts come from Program-Specific Reports (November 2025). Higher survival is not a referral recommendation; high-volume programs accept broader candidate pools.

Lung ranking picture

the ranked set performed 8,901 lung transplants combined; 895 candidates sit on these programs' combined waitlists.

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Programs ranked: 88.7%
Mean 1-yr survival: 895
Combined waitlist

Survival rates are SRTR risk-adjusted estimates for historical cohorts. Centers accepting higher-risk patients may report lower rates while providing appropriate care.

Compiled by PlainTransplant · August 14, 2026

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Every figure on PlainTransplant is rendered directly from SRTR Program-Specific Reports data, no number is typed in by an editor. Organ rankings for Lung are ordered from SRTR Program-Specific Reports risk-adjusted 1-year graft survival; 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 November 2025.

Centers with highest 1-year graft survival rate from SRTR November 2025, limited to programs reporting at least 5 lung transplants in the period (below that, a single case can swing the rate by 20+ points). 64 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.

Mean 1-year graft survival across 64 ranked lung programs in the November 2025 SRTR cohort

What this shows: the bar behind each 1-yr Survival figure is scaled to University of Iowa Hospital…'s rate (97.7%), the highest in this cohort. Hover a row for that center's exact share of the leader and its rank out of 64.

Rank	Center	State	1-yr Survival	3-yr Survival	Transplants	Waitlist stock	Additions
1	University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Transplant Programs	Iowa	97.7%	86.6%	74	13	25
2	Spectrum Health	Michigan	96.6%	82.8%	136	20	53
3	Indiana University Health	Indiana	96.3%	71.8%	99	2	37
4	University of Alabama Hospital	Alabama	95.7%	70.3%	80	13	25
5	Medical University of South Carolina	South Carolina	95.1%	73.9%	50	5	19
6	Keck Hospital of USC	California	94.7%	78.3%	84	11	25
7	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Tennessee	94.5%	80.1%	157	7	96
8	Ochsner Foundation Hospital	Louisiana	94.1%	52.8%	49	6	13
9	UF Health Shands Hospital	Florida	93.8%	80.7%	264	9	62
10	University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center	California	93.5%	73.2%	268	24	91
11	St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center	Arizona	93.5%	70.1%	299	8	103
12	University of California San Francisco Medical Center	California	93.2%	83.9%	247	21	111
13	New York University Medical Center	New York	92.9%	82.8%	163	16	91
14	University Hospital, University of Texas Health Science Center	Texas	92.6%	73.8%	79	5	32
15	Mayo Clinic Florida	Florida	92.6%	65.4%	155	16	73
16	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	California	92.5%	75.6%	148	9	83
17	Stanford Health Care	California	92.2%	73.8%	230	16	86
18	Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania	Pennsylvania	92.1%	78.2%	235	30	71
19	Loyola University Medical Center	Illinois	91.9%	63.3%	157	25	45
20	Houston Methodist Hospital	Texas	91.8%	76.1%	252	29	86
21	University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics	Wisconsin	91.3%	85.0%	105	6	60
22	Tampa General Hospital	Florida	91.3%	74.8%	145	23	63
23	University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview	Minnesota	90.9%	67.3%	121	14	56
24	University of California San Diego Medical Center	California	90.9%	77.1%	126	4	57
25	Johns Hopkins Hospital	Maryland	90.8%	82.4%	96	13	43
26	Barnes-Jewish Hospital	Missouri	90.8%	70.8%	220	12	45
27	University Hospitals of Cleveland	Ohio	89.8%	45.0%	30	7	17
28	University of Michigan Medical Center	Michigan	89.7%	74.1%	129	16	24
29	University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	Pennsylvania	89.6%	74.0%	186	9	50
30	Northwestern Memorial Hospital	Illinois	89.6%	67.0%	201	1	134
31	Brigham and Women's Hospital	Massachusetts	89.6%	65.9%	217	13	53
32	Florida Hospital Medical Center	Florida	89.5%	70.4%	72	6	15
33	Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital	Wisconsin	89.5%	78.6%	21	2	4
34	Baylor University Medical Center	Texas	89.5%	65.1%	104	14	40
35	UT Southwestern Medical Center/	Texas	89.4%	73.8%	195	28	88
36	Rochester Methodist Hospital (Mayo Clinic)	Minnesota	89.2%	77.6%	102	15	85
37	North Shore University Hospital/Northwell Health	New York	88.8%	100.0%	9	13	18
38	NY Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia Univ. Medical Center	New York	88.7%	72.4%	306	30	125
39	The Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Ohio	88.2%	75.9%	368	46	153
40	Massachusetts General Hospital	Massachusetts	87.8%	69.6%	89	13	67
41	University of Colorado Hospital/Health Science Center	Colorado	87.7%	76.7%	110	8	48
42	Jewish Hospital	Kentucky	87.5%	57.5%	41	8	30
43	University of Maryland Medical System	Maryland	87.4%	62.2%	94	12	43
44	Montefiore Medical Center	New York	87.2%	66.3%	112	13	28
45	Ohio State University Medical Center	Ohio	87.2%	62.1%	229	14	67
46	Memorial Hermann Hospital, University of Texas at Houston	Texas	86.9%	67.7%	69	11	13
47	Jackson Memorial Hospital University of Miami School of Medicine	Florida	86.7%	62.8%	94	5	77
48	Emory University Hospital	Georgia	86.6%	79.8%	71	8	23
49	CHI St. Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center	Texas	86.5%	67.3%	197	9	102
50	Inova Fairfax Hospital	Virginia	86.3%	74.7%	108	16	57
51	Newark Beth Israel Medical Center	New Jersey	85.9%	60.2%	49	4	18
52	Temple University Hospital	Pennsylvania	85.8%	70.1%	441	65	127
53	University of Washington Medical Center	Washington	85.5%	78.9%	179	51	74
54	Henry Ford Hospital	Michigan	85.3%	77.0%	130	31	45
55	University of Virginia Health Sciences Center	Virginia	85.2%	75.1%	91	8	29
56	Mount Sinai Medical Center	New York	84.9%	71.4%	12	17	32
57	University of Utah Medical Center	Utah	83.7%	86.7%	56	10	41
58	Integris Baptist Medical Center	Oklahoma	83.3%	69.5%	63	10	30
59	University of Kentucky Medical Center	Kentucky	83.2%	61.7%	76	2	4
60	Duke University Hospital	North Carolina	82.1%	68.4%	388	3	90
61	The Nebraska Medical Center	Nebraska	78.1%	66.2%	27	4	14
62	Banner University Medical Center-Tucson	Arizona	72.4%	60.8%	91	7	17
63	University of Chicago Medical Center	Illinois	72.2%	58.7%	60	5	6
64	University of North Carolina Hospitals	North Carolina	69.8%	60.9%	45	4	6

Featured Lung Programs

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

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Transplant Programs

Iowa · Rank #1 · 97.7% 1-yr

Spectrum Health

Michigan · Rank #2 · 96.6% 1-yr

Indiana University Health

Indiana · Rank #3 · 96.3% 1-yr

University of Alabama Hospital

Alabama · Rank #4 · 95.7% 1-yr

Medical University of South Carolina

South Carolina · Rank #5 · 95.1% 1-yr

Compare Lung centers side-by-side →Lung overview

How to Read This Ranking

Survival rankings for lung 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 lung 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 lung transplant programs. srtr.org
OPTN lung allocation policy - policy governing lung distribution nationally. optn.transplant.hrsa.gov

About These Rankings

Source: 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.