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 6,800 transplants possible in 2018. 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.
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.
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.
Faces of Hope: The Sanchez Family
Gift of Life Family House
The Sanchez Family left Baltimore to seek transplant-related care for their son and found a home-away-from-home at Gift of Life Family House.
Lung Transplant Recipient Thankful for the Gift of Life
Lung Recipient
Diagnosed with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), Brian Zionts-Bernstein’s best option for treatment was to receive a lung transplant.
Man Gets Life Back After Receiving Gift of Life
Heart Recipient
After losing several family members to heart disease, a hero organ donor gave Randolph Rahming a second chance at life.
25 Years Post-Transplant, Still Grateful for Gift of Life
Kidney/Pancreas Recipient
Type 1 Diabetes nearly killed Faith Carlin until she received the gift of a kidney and pancreas transplant that saved her life.
Liver Transplant Recipient Feels Gratitude for Gift of Life
Liver Recipient
“I felt like I’d been resurrected because of my transplant. I was renewed – from sick to healed. God led me through it.” — Diane Scheuer