---
title: "Liver Outcomes at Sutter Health"
url: "https://www.sutterhealth.org/about-us/quality-care/service-outcomes/liver-outcomes"
---

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4.  [Service quality outcomes](https://www.sutterhealth.org/about-us/quality-care/service-outcomes) /
5.  Liver outcomes

# Liver outcomes

## Our programs

### CPMC liver transplant outcomes

[Outcomes](https://www.sutterhealth.org/about-us/quality-care/service-outcomes/liver-outcomes#cpmc)

## By the numbers

### 60 

liver transplants annually

CPMC’s Liver Disease and Transplant Program performs more than 60 liver transplants annually

### 4%

nations best for critically important criteria

CPMC received the Silver-level honor, placing the program in the nation’s top four percent based on critically important criteria.

### 99.33%

graft survival rate

CPMC has a 99.33% survival rate after the first month for Graft Transplant Recipients.

### 99.32%

patient survival rate

CPMC has a 99.32% survival rate after the first month for Transplant Recipients.

## California Pacific Medical Center

**About the program**

CPMC’s Liver Disease and Transplant Program sees nearly 1,000 new liver disease patients and performs more than 60 liver transplants annually (over 2,000 since 1988). Specialized and caring transplant hepatologists and surgeons at CPMC work at the forefront of both clinical research and surgical innovations.

**Liver transplant: Patient survival scientific registry of transplant recipients release Jan 2018**

The graph below show two markers of transplant quality: patient survival and graft survival.

| Results | 1 month:  <br>Patients receiving transplant between 07/01/2014 and 12/31/2016 | 1 year:  <br>Patients receiving transplant between 07/01/2014 and 12/31/2016 | 3 years:  <br>Patients receiving transplant between 01/01/2012 and 06/30/2014 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CPMC Results | 99.32% | 95.41%  <br>statistically higher than expected | 87.42% |
| Expected | 96.86% | 90.55% | 83.40% |
| United States | 97.42% | 92.33% | 83.60% |

**Liver transplant: Graft survival scientific registry of transplant recipients release Jan 2018** 

The graph below show two markers of transplant quality: patient survival and graft survival.

| Results | 1 month:  <br>Patients receiving transplant between 07/01/2014 and 12/31/2016 | 1 year:  <br>Patients receiving transplant between 07/01/2014 and 12/31/2016 | 3 years:  <br>Patients receiving transplant between 01/01/2012 and 06/30/2014 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CPMC Results | 99.33%  <br>statistically higher than expected | 95.42%  <br>statistically higher than expected | 86.88%  <br>statistically higher than expected |
| Expected | 95.43% | 88.53% | 81.05% |
| United States | 95.95% | 90.17% | 81.33% |

**Results explained**

An “expected” patient survival rate is calculated based on patient and donor characteristics, such as age and patient diagnosis. A “statistically higher” difference between observed and expected value shows an extremely high quality of patient care.

We are committed to providing exemplary care and publicly reporting our transplant outcomes. Accordingly, CPMC regularly reports transplant outcomes and data to the national Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Liver Transplant Data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).

**National award for liver transplant outcomes** 

In 2012, CPMC’s Liver Transplant Program received the U.S. Health and Human Services Transplant Program Silver Level Award at the Silver level in 2012. The medical center won the award for obtaining “better than expected” outcomes in two key categories: post-transplant survival rates, and lower patient mortality rates after being placed on the transplant waiting list.

CPMC was one of only five out of 137 liver transplant programs nationwide to receive the Silver-level honor, placing our program in the nation’s top four percent based on critically important criteria.

## Liver service at Sutter Health

[Learn more](https://www.sutterhealth.org/services/liver-care)

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