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Massachusetts Transplant Centers

Top-third center count · #7 of 48. Massachusetts is a high-volume SRTR state book (9 tracked centers, 4,897 summed transplants across 7 organ types). Inventory, not a quality grade.

This data is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice. Always consult your transplant team for decisions about your care.

Center count is not volume

Massachusetts ranks #7 of 48 states by SRTR center headcount but #9 by summed reported transplant volume — program inventory and throughput diverge here.

#7
Center headcount rank
#9
Summed volume rank

Corpus placement ranks states by SRTR center headcount and by summed reported transplant volume separately. Volume is inventory, not a quality grade.

National corpus split

Texas leads with 26 SRTR-tracked transplant centers (#1 of 48 states) but ranks #1 by summed reported volume; California leads volume at 385,415 reported transplants (#1 of 48) with #2 center headcount.

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Texas centers #1
#1
Texas volume rank
385,415
California transplants #1
#2
California center rank

Center headcount counts SRTR-listed transplant programs by state of record; volume sums program-specific transplants_performed fields. Neither is an outcomes or referral ranking.

Top-third center count · #7 of 48

9 SRTR-tracked centers place Massachusetts among the denser state directories. Massachusetts lands in the heaviest volume third nationally (#9 of 48) at 3.1% of national state volume (4,897 summed transplants across 9 centers); Massachusetts General Hospital leads in-state at 1,641.

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SRTR-tracked centers
4,897
Summed reported transplants
3.1%
Share of national state volume
1,641
In-state volume lead · Massachusetts General Hospi…

State totals sum program-specific SRTR fields for centers physically located here. Volume and waitlist size are inventory signals, not outcomes advice. Patients often list across state lines.

Massachusetts vs all states by combined SRTR waitlist

Where this state's summed organ waitlist sits among every state with SRTR-tracked centers (inventory signal, not a quality ranking)

4,082 6th of 48 higher than 42 of 48 states

States, banded by summed waitlist_size across organ programs

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Source SRTR Program-Specific Reports · 2026-08-14

Top 9 Massachusetts centers by summed transplant volume

Same in-state center list as the directory below, sorted by summed transplants_performed across joined organ programs. Discovery filter, not a quality ranking.

In-state volume
1. Massachusetts General Hos…16412. UMass Memorial Medical Ce…8353. Beth Israel Deaconess Med…6324. Brigham and Women's Hospi…5775. Lahey Clinic Medical Cent…5226. Boston Medical Center2207. Tufts Medical Center2058. Baystate Medical Center1649. Boston Children's Hospital101
0%100%33.5of this state's reported volume
Massachusetts General Hospital accounts for 1,641 of 4,897 summed reported transplants in Massachusetts. This is a volume concentration measure, not an outcomes or referral ranking.

Where Massachusetts's reported transplants come from

What this state directory reports

Massachusetts sits in the heaviest third of state transplant books - the directory below is a large inventory map, not a referral ranking.

Massachusetts: 9 SRTR-tracked transplant centers · covering 7 organ types · 4,897 reported procedures · 4,082 on combined waitlist · 92.9% volume-weighted 1-year graft survival.

See the per-organ summary table for Massachusetts-specific breakdowns and the SRTR/OPTN methodology for source and calculation details.

State Summary by Organ

Organ Centers Waitlist Transplants Avg 1-yr Survival
Heart-Lung 1 N/A 6 N/A
Intestine 1 2 1 N/A
Kidney 9 3,476 2,898 93.2%
Kidney-Pancreas 3 45 58 100.0%
Liver 6 504 1,602 89.8%
Lung 3 28 315 88.7%
Pancreas 4 27 17 N/A

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Limits of Massachusetts State Totals

A large Massachusetts total still only aggregates centers physically located here - it does not count every resident served or every candidate listed by a Massachusetts program. Open a center for organ-level fields.

Every figure on PlainTransplant is rendered directly from SRTR Program-Specific Reports data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on SRTR Program-Specific Reports data; 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.