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Illinois Transplant Centers
Top-third center count · #6 of 48. Illinois is a high-volume SRTR state book (10 tracked centers, 6,261 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
Illinois ranks #6 of 48 states by SRTR center headcount but #7 by summed reported transplant volume — program inventory and throughput diverge here.
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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
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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 · #6 of 48
10 SRTR-tracked centers place Illinois among the denser state directories. Illinois lands in the heaviest volume third nationally (#7 of 48) at 3.9% of national state volume (6,261 summed transplants across 10 centers); Northwestern Memorial Hospital leads in-state at 1,608.
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- In-state volume lead · Northwestern Memorial 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.
Illinois 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)
3,841 8th of 48 higher than 40 of 48 states
States, banded by summed waitlist_size across organ programs
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source SRTR Program-Specific Reports · 2026-08-14
Top 10 Illinois centers by summed transplant volume
Where Illinois's reported transplants come from
What this state directory reports
Illinois sits in the heaviest third of state transplant books - the directory below is a large inventory map, not a referral ranking.
Illinois: 10 SRTR-tracked transplant centers · covering 7 organ types · 6,261 reported procedures · 3,841 on combined waitlist · 84.0% volume-weighted 1-year graft survival.
See the per-organ summary table for Illinois-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 | 3 | 1 | 2 | N/A |
| Intestine | 2 | 7 | 13 | 50.0% |
| Kidney | 10 | 3,375 | 4,172 | 95.9% |
| Kidney-Pancreas | 6 | 129 | 298 | 97.8% |
| Liver | 6 | 250 | 1,297 | 91.9% |
| Lung | 3 | 31 | 418 | 84.6% |
| Pancreas | 5 | 48 | 61 | N/A |
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Loyola University Medical Center
Memorial Medical Center
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center
Rush University Medical Center
Transplant Center (ILVA)
University of Chicago Medical Center
University of Illinois Medical Center
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Limits of Illinois State Totals
A large Illinois total still only aggregates centers physically located here - it does not count every resident served or every candidate listed by a Illinois 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.