Living kidney donation in
Michigan
Verified centers in Michigan
Ascension St. John Hospital
Detroit, MI
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedAscension St. John Hospital's kidney transplant program is now run by Henry Ford Health; Henry Ford's own location page for this site says nephrologists and transplant surgeons there treat adults with end-stage kidney disease.
Children's Hospital of Michigan
Detroit, MI
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedChildren's Hospital of Michigan's kidney-transplant page says its team has performed living-donor and deceased-donor kidney transplants, with surgical procedures done at the hospital in Detroit.
Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital
Grand Rapids, MI
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verifiedHelen DeVos Children's Hospital's pediatric kidney-transplant page invites people interested in becoming a living donor for a child on the waiting list to complete a donor-inquiry form.
Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital
Royal Oak, MI
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeCorewell Health William Beaumont's living-kidney-donor page describes related, unrelated, and altruistic donation, and says a Kidney Paired Donation program is available for donor-recipient pairs who are not compatible.
Henry Ford Hospital
Detroit, MI
NLDAC financial assistancePaired exchangeHenry Ford's living-donor pages describe directed, non-directed, and paired kidney donation coordinated with UNOS, and name the National Living Donor Assistance Center as a resource for donor travel, lodging, and lost-wage costs.
Mercy Health Saint Mary's
Grand Rapids, MI
NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchangeTrinity Health's Grand Rapids kidney-transplant page, formerly Mercy Health Saint Mary's, describes direct, paired-exchange, and anonymous living-donor donation, and says the program partners with the National Kidney Registry.
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, MI
NLDAC financial assistancePaired exchangeU-M Health's living-donor page says candidates are evaluated by a nephrologist, surgeon, and social worker, offers a paired kidney donation program for donor-recipient pairs who are not compatible, and names NLDAC as a resource for donor travel, lodging, and lost-wage costs.
Living donors in Michigan: grade B
Michigan has 3 of the seven protections tracked, which is around the national middle. Check which ones cover your situation before you plan around them.
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 Michigan 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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