University of Chicago health system closes out year with new state record of heart transplants

CHICAGO - The University of Chicago health system is closing out 2022 with a new state record in heart transplants for the second year in a row. 

They performed 66 of the procedures, passing last year's then-record number of 61. 

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A transplant registry report from July showed UChicago Medicine's heart transplant program had the highest one-year survival rate in the country at 100 percent.

It also showed the shortest wait times at less than a month.