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If you have questions about liver transplantation or would like to schedule an appointment.

Nationally Recognized Liver Transplant Program

Liver Transplant Care: One Patient’s Story

Why Liver Transplant Patients Choose Ochsner

Quality and Experience

Shorter Wait Times

Liver transplant patients at Ochsner have significantly shorter wait times than the national median.

Easy Access

Direct flights are available to New Orleans from many areas across the country.

Ochsner’s own fleet of medically equipped helicopters, airplanes and ground vehicles can provide critical care while transporting transplant patients from bedside to bedside.

Critical Care Assistance

Accommodations
 

Out-of-town transplant patients and family members have a home away from home at the full-service Brent House hotel on the Ochsner campus. Longer-term fully furnished accommodations are available at the Levee Run apartment complex, within walking distance of the hospital.

Medicare-Approved

Ochsner is a Medicare-approved liver transplant program, accepts most insurance carriers for transplant coverage, and is a Center of Excellence for more than a half-dozen insurers.

Patient Services
 

Collaborative patient services include medical, psychological, social and financial counseling for transplant patients and their families before and after transplants.

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We’ve got the answers to your liver transplantation questions.

Take the next step on your liver transplant journey at Ochsner Medical Center. Call today to speak with a member of our transplant team:

  • For the past four years, more patients have received liver transplants at the Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute than at any other hospital in the country.  
  • “Fast Pass” program reduces the liver transplant evaluation process to less than two days, instead of the typical two to three weeks. 
  • Shorter wait times and higher success rates for liver transplant patients.

Better Survival Rates

Ochsner's liver transplant survival rates exceed the national average.

Leading Clinical Research

Ochsner’s clinical research includes treating viral hepatitis in a way that allows many patients to avoid liver transplants.

LIVER TRANSPLANTS

237

Ochsner performed a total of 237 liver transplants in 2015 — more than any other center in the nation.

NO. 1

Ochsner has been ranked the best in the country for liver transplant surgery by CareChex for four straight years.

Liver Transplant: Dr. Girgrah “Fast Pass” Program

Split Liver Transplant Saves the Life of a 70-year-old Woman and a 1-year-old Boy

Transforming Lives through Liver Transplants WWL-TV

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No. 1 Liver Transplant
 Program in the Nation

Jarrius Robertson
 Winner of the 2017 Jimmy V Perseverance Award