The National Kidney Registry has honored the University of Minnesota Health kidney transplant program for helping conduct an 18-person kidney transplant chain that saved nine lives across the nation.

Supported by his family and the renowned University of Minnesota Health Cystic Fibrosis Center, lacrosse player and CF patient Dylan Mertz lets nothing stand in his way.

For more than a decade, U.S. News & World Report has recognized University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital in its annual ranking of the nation’s Best Children’s Hospitals