Resources for Transplant Patients
If you or a loved one needs an organ transplant, understanding what’s involved can help you to prepare for your transplant journey.
Living Donation
Living donors made more than 7,300 transplants possible in 2019. Learn more about living donor transplants.
Caregiver Resources
For many transplant patients and their family members, even the good news of a life-saving organ match brings anxieties. Learn more about resources available for caregivers.
Regional Transplant Centers
There are 15 transplant centers in our region who perform solid organ transplants. Explore these centers using the map below.
Gift of Life Stories
Read these inspiring stories about how organ and tissue donation and transplantation touches and transforms lives.
Mom and daughter thriving eight years after living organ donation
Liver recipient
“My liver was sick,” says Jade Moeller. “And mommy gave me some of her liver and it helped.”
Man gets life back after receiving donated organ
Kidney Recipient
A life-saving kidney transplant gave Chris his life back after years of feeling sluggish and uncertain.
Faces of Hope: Turia Pitt
Tissue Recipient
Turia Pitt was caught in a grassfire and suffered burns to 65% of her body. She received donated skin grafts that saved her life.
Marine celebrates winning his most important battle
Heart Recipient
William ‘Duffy’ McDuffie served in the Marines and the Air Force for 27 years, but in 2021 he found himself in the fight of his life awaiting a heart transplant.
Central PA man saved twice by organ donation
Lung Recipient
In the space of a decade, Jim received two life-saving lung transplants, enabling him to return to beloved activities such as golf.
Athlete Returns to the Soccer Field After Heart Transplant
Heart Recipient
Not a day passes without Joe Mansaray wondering whose heart beats inside his chest.