Skip to main content

Transplant centers

Find a kidney transplant center

What every US living donor program publishes — financial help for donors, paired exchange, and how to reach them. Checked against public sources and dated.
Clear

223 centers

Every yes and no here was checked against a public source on the date shown. A blank means we have not verified it either way — the center may well offer it, so ask them.

Pick a state

Every state, roughly where it sits on the map. Choose one to see the transplant centers we have verified there.

Illinois · 10 verified centers

State page
  • Advocate Christ Medical Center

    Oak Lawn, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange

    Advocate Christ's living-donor page describes its own paired kidney donor exchange program, which lets a donor and recipient pair with an incompatible blood type or other incompatibility be paired with another donor and recipient pair so the kidneys can be exchanged.

  • Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

    Chicago, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange

    A pediatric program. Lurie Children's says living donor services for its transplants are provided through its partnership with the Kidney Transplantation Program at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

  • Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Administration Medical Center

    Hines, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verified

    Hines VA's own news release says its kidney transplant program, including living donor transplants, runs in partnership with Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, and it directs interested donors to Loyola's own donor-screening site.

  • Loyola University Medical Center

    Maywood, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange

    Loyola's living-donor page says incompatibility between a donor and recipient can often be worked out by filtering the recipient's blood or through Loyola's own pay-it-forward kidney exchange program.

  • Northwestern Memorial Hospital

    Chicago, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange

    Northwestern's kidney-donor page says its Organ Transplant Center performs kidney paired donation surgeries, including large multi-way paired exchanges.

  • OSF Saint Francis Medical Center

    Peoria, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange

    OSF's living-donation page says its transplant program participates in national paired kidney exchange programs, and offers a living donor coordinator for prospective donors to speak with directly.

  • Rush University Medical Center

    Chicago, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange

    Rush's living-kidney-donor page says its program participates in multiple national paired kidney exchange programs, and lists a dedicated line for people interested in becoming a living donor.

  • Springfield Memorial Hospital

    Springfield, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verified

    Memorial Health's transplant-care page says Springfield Memorial Hospital offers minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery for living kidney donors, through its Alan G. Birtch Center for Transplant Services.

  • University of Chicago Medical Center

    Chicago, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange · not yet verified

    UChicago Medicine's living-donor page says it works with the National Kidney Registry to help link an incompatible donor and recipient pair with other pairs nationally, and lists a living donor intake coordinator to contact directly.

  • University of Illinois Medical Center

    Chicago, IL

    NLDAC financial assistance · not yet verifiedPaired exchange

    UI Health's living-kidney-donor page invites people interested in learning about kidney donation to reach its kidney transplant program directly by phone or email.

My Kidney Story does not collect, store, or evaluate medical information, and nothing on this page is medical advice. Donor eligibility is determined solely by a transplant center after its own independent evaluation.

My Kidney Story is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any center listed here, SRTR, OPTN or NLDAC.