The Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center performs over 200 transplants each year – including heart, kidney, liver and pancreas – and that number is growing. We also specialize in helping those needing liver and kidney transplantation to find and evaluate potential live donors.

Yale-New Haven Hospital regularly ranks among the top hospitals in the U.S., and Yale School of Medicine physicians make up a significant percentage of the listings in Connecticut Magazine’s Top Docs listing each year. The hospital is a center of excellence for many types of organ transplantation and participates with the New England Organ Bank and the United Network for Organ Sharing. We try to reduce patient waiting time for transplantation and have an excellent record for patient and graft survival after organ transplantation.

Yale-New Haven Hospital accepts patients from all over the world. Talk to your doctor about Yale-New Haven Hospital or call us if you want more information about our programs. (203) 785-2565.

Another facet of Yale-New Haven Transplantation Center's commitment to excellence is the global expertise of its team. Drawn from all over the world to treat our patients, their diverse backgrounds have a common denominator: to provide the finest transplantation care. Find out more.

To find out more about Yale-New Haven Hospital use our online search or visit Yale Medical Group to see the profiles of our surgical or medical transplantation specialists and other Yale University physicians.

History

The history of Yale-New Haven Hospital extends back to 1826, when the General Hospital Society of Connecticut was chartered as the first hospital in Connecticut and the fourth voluntary hospital in the nation. The Hospital is the primary affiliate of the Yale University School of Medicine, which was chartered in 1810. Yale University physicians lead our organ transplant programs. Read more about the Yale University clinical services at Yale Medical Group.

In the area of organ transplants, many milestones have been reached here. We performed the first kidney transplant in the state on December 21, 1967; the first liver transplant in the state on October 2, 1983; and the first pancreas transplant in the state on April 6, 1989.

Here are some transplantation milestones at Yale-New Haven Transplant Center:

• 1952 – Cornea
• 1967 – Kidney
• 1983 – Liver
• 1984 – Heart
• 1988 – Bone marrow
• 1988 – Heart/lung
• 1989 – Pancreas
• 1990 – Single lung
• 1992 – Heart from an unmatched donor
• 1997 – Heart transplants performed on adult identical twins
• 2003 – Jarvik2000 left ventricular assist device