1.   And if a patient does not live close enough to a transplant center, they would have to move, causing emotional and financial stress.

2.   As a result, transplant centers have opened around the country, some with special wards catering to high-paying foreign patients.

3.   As recently as last year, Wilford Hall was a transplant referral center for the Defense Department.

4.   A government hearing on proposed changes in the way livers are allocated for lifesaving transplants offered a rare glimpse on Tuesday of acrimony among transplant centers.

5.   A government hearing on proposed changes in the way livers are allocated for lifesaving transplants offered a rare glimpse Tuesday of acrimony among transplant centers.

6.   A spokesman for the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems could not confirm whether any county hospitals are transplant centers but said that would be extremely rare.

7.   According to the California Association of Public Hospitals, none of the county hospitals in California are organ transplant centers.

8.   All transplant centers have full-time financial coordinators to help patients with financial options.

9.   But the network, which is composed mostly of representatives from the smaller transplant centers, balked at the rule, saying its members preferred the current system.

10.   Doctors from smaller transplant centers, however, agree with Graham.