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Transplant care # Transplant services and research  **Section menu** - [Transplant](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/transplant "Transplant") - [Transplant care](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/transplant/transplant-care "Transplant care") - [Transplant](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/transplant "Transplant") - [Transplant care](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/transplant/transplant-care "Transplant care") ![transplant-logo-300x260](https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/sutterhealt962c-sutterhealt8fce-production57cc-4860/media/Project/SutterHealth/SutterHealth/Images/icons/transplant-logo-300x260.png) During this past half century, CPMC care teams have performed more than 9,200 organ transplants, including more than 6,200 kidney transplants; 2,000 liver transplants; 400 pancreas transplants; and 500 heart transplants. As our community celebrates the 50th anniversary of transplant care at CPMC, please help us continue this groundbreaking work and [**Give now.**](https://sutterhealth.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donate.event&eventID=715) With support from philanthropic investors like you, we can achieve our goal to care for more patients with CPMC’s nationally prominent transplant program.    ## **Barry S. Levin Department of Transplantation** The Barry S. Levin Department of Transplantation at CPMC is nationally ranked as one of the top transplant programs in the country with survival rates among the best in the nation. Through your generosity, you can empower physicians and their teams to provide the best patient care, drive groundbreaking research and enable the education and training of the next generation of transplant physicians. 100% of your philanthropic investment goes directly to the CPMC organ disease and transplantation program that most inspires you. Please select a funding priority and [**Give Now:**](https://sutterhealth.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donate.event&eventID=715) - Barry S. Levin Transplantation Fellowship Fund - Transplant Department General Fund ## **Heart** Your philanthropic investment in CPMC’s Center for Advanced Heart Therapies and Transplant will help support the program and physicians that enable these lifesaving procedures.  CPMC was the first private hospital in the US to perform heart transplants and the first US hospital to bridge a patient to heart transplant using ventricular assist devices (VAD). Since 1984, 500 heart transplants and over 260 Ventricle Assist Device Procedures have been performed at CPMC. Please select a funding priority and [**Give now**](https://sutterhealth.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donate.event&eventID=715): - Center for Advanced Heart Therapies and Transplant ## **Kidney** Give to CPMC’s Kidney Transplant Program — a nationally recognized leader in providing excellent, personalized care for kidney recipients and donors. CPMC is a pioneer in kidney paired donation, making history in 2015 as the first California hospital to perform a six-way kidney paired exchange among six donors and six recipients. CPMC's Kidney Transplant program celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2019, and performed its 6,000th transplant in December 2018. Please select a funding priority and [**Give now**](https://sutterhealth.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donate.event&eventID=715): - Kidney Transplant Program ## **Liver** In 2018, CPMC’s Liver Transplant Program reached milestones of which we are especially proud: we celebrated our 30th anniversary, our doctors performed our 2,000th liver transplant, and we were recognized for having the best survival outcomes in the country. Please select a funding priority and [Give now:](https://sutterhealth.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donate.event&eventID=715) - Autoimmune Liver Disease Program - Ibrahim El Hefni Liver Biorepository and Research Fund - Liver Transplant and Liver Disease Program ## Give to CPMC  Invest in transplant services and research.  [Make a gift](https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/give-now) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"MedicalOrganization","name":"Sutter Health","@id":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/#medicalorganization","url":"https://www.sutterhealth.org","logo":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/static/images/sutter-health-logo.svg","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","streetAddress":"2200 River Plaza Drive","addressLocality":"Sacramento","addressRegion":"CA","postalCode":"95833","addressCountry":"US"},"areaServed":{"@type":"AdministrativeArea","name":"California"},"sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/SutterHealth","https://www.instagram.com/sutterhealth/","https://x.com/SutterHealth","https://www.youtube.com/sutterhealth","https://www.linkedin.com/company/sutter-health","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutter_Health"]} ``` ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","name":"Transplant services | Sutter Health","description":"Your donations improve patient care, drive research and save lives. ","url":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/transplant/transplant-care","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/transplant/transplant-care#breadcrumblist"}} ``` ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/transplant/transplant-care#breadcrumblist","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Giving","item":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Giving opportunities","item":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Transplant","item":"https://www.sutterhealth.org/giving/giving-opportunities/transplant"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"Transplant care"}]} ``` ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Living Donor Institute 3-year Goal - Kidney Transplant ","thumbnailUrl":"https://cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/817826402001/1ce5b61f-ce50-48ad-b002-93e0be4f927f/d8805ce7-eecd-49a7-ad11-d9977961fc41/1280x720/match/image.jpg","uploadDate":"2023-06-27T19:53:49.458Z","embedUrl":"https://players.brightcove.net/817826402001/79bcaa57-54d7-453c-9f1f-8ab3ef7b15de/index.html?videoId=6330195548112","description":"Our goal with the living donor institute is to grow our living donor transplants to 30% of our total kidney transplant volume. 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","duration":"PT2M7S","transcript":"[MUSIC PLAYING]\n\nKEVIN LAMONT BACHAR: There are more than 90,000 patients\non the kidney transplant list and every year\naround 220 kidney transplants are performed right here\nat CPMC.\nSince our transplant program began in 1969,\nour team has completed over 6,600 kidney transplants\nand over 1,600 living donor transplants.\nThe Living Donor Institute is our commitment\nto increase our living donor transplants\nto 30% of our total kidney transplant value.\nSUBJECT: Thanks to my sister-in-law\nbecoming a living donor, I'm here now and I am enjoying life\nand I am very happy with the outcome.\nSTEVEN KATZNELSON: When we look at the growth of a kidney\ntransplant program at CPMC, we can't help\nbut connect the reach our program has to philanthropy.\nStarting with grant dollars from CPMC Foundation,\nwe developed computer software that\nmatches incompatible kidney donor\npairs, leading to early and more successful\nliving donor kidney transplants.\nThe kidney paired donation software\nhas led to successful transplants for over 175\npatients at CPMC and over 1,700 patients worldwide.\nPhilanthropy has also enabled us to hire a dedicated kidney\nperegrination nurse whose responsibility is\nto identify such matches and coordinate the care of patient\nand their family needs for successful living donor kidney\ntransplant.\nAs we look to the future of our program\nand think about building out the Living Donor Institute,\nwe need philanthropic investors to grow this program\nand reach national prominence.\nWe have a goal of raising $4 million over three years\nto support this work we are doing for our community\nand to date have raised $700,000.\nOn behalf of our whole team, thank you for your past support\nand thank you for consideration of future support\nto help our program well into the future.\n[MUSIC PLAYING]"} ```