Shorter Expected Wait in Pittsburgh
Smaller Waitlist Than UPMC
Advanced Robotic Transplant Program
Blood Type O: 32 months
Blood Type B: 43 months
Blood Type A: 16 months
Allegheny General Hospital shares the Pittsburgh transplant market with UPMC, one of the country's best-known transplant programs. However, reputation and program size do not necessarily translate into a shorter wait for a deceased-donor kidney.
In recent years, UPMC has carried a substantially larger kidney waiting list than Allegheny General Hospital. Because the two programs serve the same general geographic area, the difference in waiting-list demand can make AGH an important alternative for patients considering where to list in western Pennsylvania.
Allegheny General Hospital and UPMC have a longstanding competitive relationship in Pittsburgh. That competition has extended to transplantation; for example, when UPMC temporarily suspended transplant operations in 2015, AGH saw a sharp increase in transplant referrals and kidney procedures, which the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette explicitly described in terms of the rival programs.
In 2026 Allegheny General Hospital became the first program in the region to perform a robotic-assisted kidney transplant in a recipient, and AHN says it is currently the only western Pennsylvania transplant center performing both donor and recipient procedures robotically.
Allegheny General Hospital successfully reduced its kidney transplant waiting list by 50%, from approximately 400 patients in 2018 to 200 in 2022. This reduction was primarily driven by a significant increase in cadaveric kidney transplant volume.
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