National Kidney Registry

Press Releases

AGH Kidney Transplant Program Receives Top Honors from National Kidney Registry

Allegheny Health Network’s (AHN) Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) has achieved the highest referral conversion rate among kidney transplant programs in the U.S., according to the National Kidney Registry (NKR), the largest paired exchange program in the world. A referral conversion rate is the percentage of interested individuals referred to a center who go on to donate. In 2022, the average…