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29 POPULATION HEALTH 53 Hospitals With Best Organ Transplant Outcomes By Heather Punke T he number of organ transplants performed in the U.S. hit a re- cord high in 2016 with 33,606 transplants performed, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. But not all transplant centers were created equal — some have much better patient out- comes than others. Using data collected from other organizations, the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients assessed outcomes of centers that perform liver, heart, lung, kidney and kidney-pancreas transplants. SRTR used a risk-adjusted assessment to evaluate how oen patients with a func- tioning transplanted organ live one year aer the transplant and then assigned a score of one (the worst) to five (the best). Listed below are the hospitals that received a score of five from SRTR for four major transplant types — liver, heart, lung and kidney. No hospitals received a five in the kidney-pancreas transplant category. Hospitals are listed in order from SRTR. Liver University of California San Francisco Medical Center Emory University Hospital (Atlanta) Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.) California Pacific Medical Center (San Francisco) University of Utah Medical Center (Salt Lake City) Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) Portland (Ore.) Veterans Administration Medical Center University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics/Iowa City VA Medical Cen- ter e Queen's Medical Center (Honolulu) Broward General Medical Center (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) Heart University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle) Mayo Clinic Hospital (Phoenix) Tus Medical Center (Boston) Ohio State University Medical Center (Columbus) Spectrum Health (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Keck Hospital of USC (Los Angeles) Advocate Christ Medical Center (Oak Lawn, Ill.) Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston Salem, N.C.) Lung St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center (Phoenix) Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis) University of California San Francisco Medical Center Stanford (Calif.) Health Care CHI St. Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center (Houston) Kidney University of San Francisco Medical Center Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) Tampa (Fla.) General Hospital University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview (Minneapolis) Keck Hospital of USC (Los Angeles) CHI St. Luke's Health Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center (Houston) University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle) University of Utah Medical Center (Salt Lake City) Rush University Medical Center (Chicago) Yale New Haven (Conn.) Hospital Oregon Health and Science University/Portland VA Medical Center Cleveland Clinic Florida Weston Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth (Texas) Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle) UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Fla.) Sentara Norfolk (Va.) General Hospital Vidant Medical Center (Greenville, N.C.) University of Chicago Medical Center Methodist Dallas Medical Center St. Vincent Hospital and Health Care Center (Indianapolis) Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center (Denver) Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (New Brunswick, N.J.) Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center Hospital Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital (Spo- kane, Wash.) St. John Medical Center (Tulsa) Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center (Camden, N.J.) Portland (Ore.) Veterans Administration Medical Center Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at Bethesda (Md.) Harbor UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, Calif.) Saint Joseph Hospital (Orange, Calif.) n