Fact Based List:

HealthGrades Hospital Kidney Transplant Excellence Award Winners

  1. Barnes - Jewish Hospital; Saint Louis, MO
  2. California Pacific Medical Center – Pacific; San Francisco, CA
  3. New York - Presbyterian/Weill Cornell; New York, NY
  4. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center; Los Angeles, CA
  5. Saint Joseph Hospital; Orange, CA
  6. UC Davis Medical Center; Sacramento, CA
  7. University of Washington Medical Center; Seattle, WA
  8. Virginia Commonwealth University Health System; Richmond, VA

Source: HealthGrades.com press release, November 15, 2011: Nation's Top Hospital Organ Transplant Centers Identified by HealthGrades
Source URL: http://www.healthgrades.com/business/news/press-releases/tra...
Notes: Winners listed in alphabetical order. HealthGrade Awards based on if hospital patients had a statistically significantly higher three-year survival rate. Award recipients were also required to have waitlist mortality that was either not significantly different than expected or was significantly lower than expected based on SRTR calculations