At first glance, this is a year told in numbers. But behind every data point is a patient, a family, and a team showing up, sometimes for the first time, sometimes after years of waiting. Surgery Wrapped 2025 is a snapshot of what it took to care for tens of thousands of people across every age, specialty, and moment of need.
The Numbers Behind the Year
In 2025, our surgical teams performed 71,199 procedures, spanning everything from routine care to lifesaving intervention. Nearly 3,000 pediatric surgeries meant many families placing enormous trust in steady hands.
Some milestones stood out for their scale. Others, for their quieter significance.
Our most common procedure—performed 2,100 times—was the Paste Boot, a deceptively simple gauze wrap that hardens to provide gradual compression, helping treat edema and venous ulcers. A reminder that not all impact is flashy; some of the most important work happens steadily multiple times a day.
Transplant surgery continued to define some of the most complex and hopeful moments of the year, with a first-of-its-kind domino split-liver transplant in adults and a domino partial-heart transplant in kids. In total, 731 organs were transplanted, including 335 livers, 204 kidneys, 79 lungs, 68 hearts, and smaller but no less meaningful numbers of pancreas (25) and intestinal transplants (17). Behind many of these were 60 living donors, people who chose to give part of themselves so someone else could keep living.
Innovation also shaped the year, with 1,179 robotic procedures expanding what’s possible while minimizing recovery for patients.
And then there are the moments that don’t fit neatly into charts: caring for the oldest patient, age 103, and welcoming the youngest patient on the very day they were born.
More Than Metrics
Surgery Wrapped isn’t about ranking or records. It’s about reflection. About pausing long enough to see what a year of care really looks like when you zoom out, and remembering that every number carries a story within it.
Here’s to the patients who trusted us, the teams who showed up day after day, and the countless moments of care that made 2025 what it was. Happy Holidays!
Related:
- One Gift, Three Futures: Inside the 15-Hour Dance of the First Living-Donor Domino Split-Liver Transplant in Adults
- A Look Inside the 24-hour Dance of a Split-Domino Heart Transplant
- Routine Procedures