Nashville is now home to the medical center with the highest number of solid organ transplants in U.S. history
The Nashville medical facility set multiple records in 2025.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Vanderbilt announced on Thursday that its transplant center has made history.
Last year, the Vanderbilt Transplant Center performed 960 solid organ transplants, which Vanderbilt Health said marks “the most ever completed by a single center in U.S. history.”
“This milestone makes us the nation’s largest transplant center by volume,” Vanderbilt Health said on Facebook. “Yet the best headline is about the lives saved: 85 more critically ill patients received a second chance this year compared to last.”
This milestone was one of many set by the center last year.
Vanderbilt said that its heart transplant team also set a world record in 2025 for the number of heart transplants. The team performed 210 of those procedures among adults and kids. It takes about 150 people to work on a single transplant, Vanderbilt said.
The lung transplant program also set a center record, with 149 adult transplants. That number, Vanderbilt said, made it the “No. 2 program in the U.S.”
“None of this is possible without the selfless acts of living donors and the families of deceased donors,” Vanderbilt said. “Their gifts are the ultimate acts of generosity.”
Vanderbilt University Medical Center said it has now conducted about 14,000 organ transplants since its first in 1962.
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