By Linda Satter
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ (UAMS) kidney and liver transplant programs continue to rank among the highest in the nation in categories that have the largest impact on patients’ survival.
In a report released this month by The Scientific Registry for Transplant Recipients (SRTR), both programs received the highest ranking possible — five bars — for the speed at which patients obtain transplants after being listed. That, according to the registry that benchmarks transplant program outcomes across the country at the behest of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has the largest impact on survival — an indication of the programs’ overall quality.
The report also gave the UAMS kidney transplant program five bars for patient survivability one year after transplant, placing it for the third consecutive year among only a handful of transplant centers across the country that scored five bars in both the speed and one-year survivability categories.
