Liver transplant

Intermountain Health has the shortest wait times nationally from referral to receiving your life-saving liver transplant. We’re here to help you or your loved one with advanced liver disease to get a new chance on life.

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Revolutionizing liver transplant care

With severe liver disease, you want to know your health is in the right hands. Our transplant team is at the forefront of innovation and quality health care delivery. With our comprehensive model of care, we’ll be there with you every step of the way.

Shortest wait times

Through innovative approaches, our average wait time is less than one month, meaning you get a liver, faster.

Unprecedented transplant growth

Between 2018 and 2024, our program has grown from 39 transplants annually to 190 transplants (387% growth).

Saving more lives

Our program provides liver transplant care throughout the Mountain West with clinics in Nevada, Idaho, Utah and soon in Montana.

What sets us apart

Our Liver Transplant Program

Intermountain Health’s liver transplant program is nationally recognized as one of the most advanced and comprehensive adult liver transplant centers in the United States. According to the latest SRTR data (July 2025), our program ranks third in the nation, reflecting our commitment to excellence in patient care and transplant outcomes.

Serving patients across seven states, we collaborate closely with multiple organ donor networks nationwide to ensure maximum access to donor organs. Our program features one of the largest living donor liver transplant programs in the country, offering patients more options and faster pathways to transplant.

With multidisciplinary care, innovative leadership, and shorter wait times, Intermountain Health consistently delivers some of the best liver transplant outcomes in the nation. Our pioneering approach to transplantation means patients benefit from quicker access to life-saving procedures and improved long-term health.

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Chris Lance's Story

Chris Lance was dying. His brother Stephen was losing hope, but discovered that his brother could be listed at multiple transplant hospitals, which ultimately saved his life.

Historias de pacientes

El trasplante de hígado le devuelve la esperanza a Rigoberto

La cirrosis agotó a Rigoberto mientras luchaba por vivir cada día. Cuando aprendió que Intermountain Health podía proporcionarle una oportunidad a una nueva viva a través de un trasplante, el cual le salvaría la vida, resurgió la esperanza y la energía de vivir y de pasar más años con su familia.

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Learn more about living liver donation

Becoming a living donor is a way to help someone you love, or one of many people on the national waiting list, to receive a life-saving organ by giving a part of yours. Those in greatest need for living donors are women and children on the transplant waiting list.

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions regarding liver transplants

What is the function of the liver?

The liver is a large organ on the right side of the abdomen that filters toxins, metabolizes drugs, exports proteins and products out of the blood and helps the body filter nutrients. When the liver stops functioning properly, serious health problems result.

Do I need a liver transplant?

Those with serious liver disease can receive treatment to slow their condition's progression and keep them relatively healthy. Unfortunately despite best care and lifestyle changes, like stopping alcohol or reducing one’s weight, liver failure still occurs leading to a need for a transplant evaluation, potential listing and if listed a liver transplant. Unlike those who suffer from kidney disease, patients with End Stage Liver Disease (E.S.L.D.) don’t have a dialysis option and the only way to help them is through transplantation. What one needs, if they have ESLD or liver cancer, is an assessment with people who are trained to identify if you are a liver transplant candidate or, how to make you a candidate for a transplant if you are quite ready yet.

How successful are liver transplants?

Since the first successful liver transplants in the 1960s a lot has changed with one year survival moving from being around 50% to 87% in the year 2000 and now post-transplant survival often exceeds 95%, meaning less than 5% of people receiving a liver transplant die in the first year and that vast majority are alive to enjoy a near normal quality-of-life with the occasional blood test, a couple of addition medications, and a clinic visit once a year when they get to 2 years post-transplant. New immunosuppression, novel surgical techniques, and our better understanding of how to manage people before and after liver transplantation led to the improvements we have seen over the last 50 years. The Intermountain Transplant Center consistently achieves patient and graft survival rates above the national average, with waiting times two or more months shorter than the rest of the national.

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