University Hospital

The University Hospital has provided the region, nation and the world with high-quality, compassionate care, cutting-edge research and education for over 181 years.

The University Hospital was the first hospital in the United States founded primarily for teaching purposes and continues to be a major research and education institution.

The Liver Transplant Program at The University Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, began in 1986 under the direction of J. Wesley Alexander, M.D., and Israel Penn, M.D., and is currently one of the largest liver transplant programs in the state of Ohio.

The University Hospital is a 695 bed hospital and admits more than 26,000 patients a year.

More than 930 physicians serve on the hospital's staff and as faculty of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, ranked one of the top 50 medical colleges in the U.S. by U.S. News and World Report.

Program

The University Hospital of Cincinnati Liver Transplant Program has performed more than 500 liver transplants to date.

The University Hospital of Cincinnati Liver Transplant Program has an average wait time to orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) of 8.8 months, compared to the average wait time to OLT for the U.S. of 53.3 months.

Our current one year patient survival rate is more than 90 percent, which is consistent with programs of our size and of those of all liver transplant programs.

University of Cincinnati surgeon, Joseph Buell, M.D. performed three radically new surgeries at Health Alliance hospitals, all of which were performed laparoscopically in this procedure, the surgeon makes only a few small incisions into the patient's abdomen rather than the long incisions for conventional surgery methods. At University Hospital, Dr. Buell performed a laparoscopic cyst gastrotomy; which is a draining of the pancreas into the stomach and a laparoscopic trisegment of the liver, which required removing 3/4 of the liver due to the growth of four large benign tumors in the liver.