Living kidney donation in
Florida
Verified centers in Florida
AdventHealth Orlando
Orlando, FL
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeAdventHealth Transplant Institute's page says its own Paired Exchange Program is offered to kidney transplant candidates, and that a donor evaluation's cost is completely covered.
Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola
Pensacola, FL
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedAscension Sacred Heart's kidney-transplant page says living-donor eligibility depends on blood type and compatibility testing plus overall good health, and that donors under about sixty are preferred though there is no upper age limit.
Cleveland Clinic Florida Weston
Weston, FL
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeCleveland Clinic Florida's kidney-transplant page says the program participates in national paired kidney exchanges or swaps, and its living-donor page says every potential donor works with an independent donor advocate whose priority is the donor's well-being.
Halifax Health
Daytona Beach, FL
NLDAC financial assistancePaired exchangeHalifax Health's living-kidney-donation guide says the program offers Kidney Paired Donation and ABO-incompatible transplant options for donor-recipient pairs who are not directly compatible, and names the National Living Donor Assistance Center as a resource for donors who qualify.
Jackson Memorial Hospital University of Miami School of Medicine
Miami, FL
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeMiami Transplant Institute's living-donor page says a compatible donor-recipient pair can still choose the Paired Kidney Exchange Program to find a better-suited kidney, and that donors must be mentally and emotionally capable of the decision.
Largo Medical Center
Largo, FL
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedHCA Florida Largo Hospital's kidney-transplant page says it was the first hospital in Florida to perform robotic surgery for living kidney donation, and that a living donor may be a blood relative, spouse, or friend.
Mayo Clinic Hospital Florida
Jacksonville, FL
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeMayo Clinic's renal transplant fellowship page for its Florida campus lists living-donor and deceased-donor kidney transplantation and a paired kidney donor program among the transplant center's active clinical programs.
Memorial Regional Hospital
Hollywood, FL
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedMemorial Transplant Institute's living-kidney-donation page says its care team assesses a donor's body mass index and overall health during the evaluation process, and that the surgical team uses minimally invasive and robotic-assisted techniques for donor nephrectomy.
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, FL
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeTampa General's living-donor kidney page says a paired exchange option is available through the National Kidney Registry and the UNOS Kidney Paired Exchange Program, and that donors are evaluated for physical and psychological health before laparoscopic donor surgery.
UF Health Shands Hospital
Gainesville, FL
NLDAC financial assistancePaired exchangeUF Health's living-kidney-donation page says the program partners in the Kidney Paired Donation program so blood-type-incompatible donor-recipient pairs can swap with other pairs, and that a living-donor team functions independently from the recipient's team to protect the donor's well-being.
Living donors in Florida: grade D
Florida has 1 of the seven protections tracked. Worth checking exactly which before you plan time off — the fact sheet below has the detail, and your transplant center's donor advocate will know it too.
What the American Kidney Fund tracks, in every state
- Insurance companies cannot deny you life, disability or long-term care cover, or charge you more, because you donated
- Job-protected leave if you work for the state
- Job-protected leave if you work for a private employer
- Paid leave for living donors
- A tax credit or deduction for your donation costs
- Direct reimbursement of donation expenses
- A tax credit for employers who give donors paid leave
This is the full list AKF scores every state against — not a claim about which of these Florida has. The fact sheet below has that detail, and it is more current than anything cached here.
Federal family leave can already cover donation. A law written for living donors has not passed yet.
The Department of Labor's position, set out in a formal opinion letter, is that donation surgery and the recovery after it count as a serious health condition under the Family and Medical Leave Act whenever they involve an overnight hospital stay, as donation surgery commonly does. So if you are eligible under that Act, you can take leave to donate and recover, come back to the same or an equivalent job, and keep your group health cover while you are away. The leave itself is unpaid, though paid leave your employer offers can run alongside it. Eligibility depends on the size of your employer and your workplace, and on how long and how many hours you have worked there — the Department of Labor's fact sheet sets out the exact tests, and your employer's HR team can confirm them for you.
The Living Donor Protection Act would write that leave protection into the law itself, and would stop life, disability and long-term care insurers from refusing cover or charging more because you donated. It has not passed. The Senate version has cleared its committee and is awaiting a floor vote; the House version has not moved since it was introduced. Paid leave, and protection for anyone the family-leave law does not reach, depends on what your state has done.
U.S. Department of Labor, opinion letter FMLA2018-2-A; U.S. Department of Labor, FMLA eligibility fact sheet; Congress.gov, S. 1552 / H.R. 4583, checked 24 September 2026
What it costs, and what covers it
The recipient's insurance covers a donor's evaluation, surgery and follow-up. Programs like NLDAC reimburse travel, lodging, dependent care and lost wages for donors who need it — the donor guide walks through both, with sources.
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