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MEDICAID NOTICE: Lurie Children’s continues to serve all patients enrolled in Medicaid. As a safety-net hospital, we will continue providing high-quality care to every child who needs us.

AVISO SOBRE MEDICAID: Lurie Children’s continúa atendiendo a todos los pacientes inscritos en Medicaid. Como hospital perteneciente a la red de protección social, continuaremos brindando atención de alta calidad a cada niño que nos necesite.

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Pediatric Heart Transplant Volumes & Outcomes

The Pediatric Heart Transplant Program at Lurie Children’s is the largest and most comprehensive program of its kind in Illinois and one of the largest in the country. Our program boasts exceptional one-year and three-year survival rates and has impressive longer-term recovery, with most patients experiencing no limitations to normal childhood activity just one year after surgery. Our program has extensive experience performing high risk transplants, including transplanting highly sensitized patients and retransplants.

Heart Transplant Volumes


Figure 1: This graph represents the number of pediatric heart transplants performed by Lurie Children's on all patients from January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2024. Find more information on transplant volumes on the UNOS website.


Figure 2: This graph represents the number of pediatric heart transplants performed on all patients by age from January 1988, when the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) began tracking the data, through December 31, 2024. Find more information on transplant volumes on the UNOS website.

Heart Transplant Outcomes

Lurie Children's boasts exceptional pediatric heart transplant survival rates for both patient and graft (also called organ), with one-month and one-year survival rates above the national average. The Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipient (SRTR) tracks outcome on graft survival, patient survival, and transplant rates, among many other outcome metrics.

View the SRTR Outcomes for Lurie Children's