Site Map
Every public page on National Friends, organized by topic. Use this page to find what you're looking for, or to share a specific resource with someone who needs it. Everything here is public and educational — not medical advice.
Patient action paths
The five most useful entry points for someone newly navigating a liver transplant pathway.
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The Dual Listing Guide
New
Free workbook on being listed at more than one transplant center.
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Compare Transplant Centers
SRTR-based comparison of U.S. liver transplant programs.
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Support Hub
Phone, email, and chat intake pathways to talk with a real person.
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The Journey
A dual-lane medical + caregiver roadmap from first symptoms to recovery.
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Outreach
Why we exist and how to begin engaging with the foundation.
Patient education
Plain-language clinical understanding of what's actually happening on the waitlist and around evaluation.
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Understanding Your Risk
What MELD captures, what it misses, and why a "low" MELD is not always low risk.
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MELD Score
What MELD is, how it is calculated, and how transplant centers use it.
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Median MELD at Transplant (MMaT)
The MELD score at which each center's patients usually receive a liver.
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Stages of Liver Disease
From fatty liver to fibrosis, cirrhosis and end-stage liver disease, with a Spanish summary.
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Cirrhosis of the Liver
Causes, compensated vs. decompensated stages, and the path to transplant.
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Decompensated Cirrhosis
The complications that signal decompensation and what they mean for transplant.
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End-Stage Liver Disease
What ESLD means, how MELD measures it, and when to ask about transplant.
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Who Qualifies for a Liver Transplant
Medical need, the evaluation, and what centers look for.
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Dual Listing — the article
The deeper article behind the Dual Listing Guide workbook.
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Liver Waiting List Guide
How the U.S. liver transplant waiting list works in practice.
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Liver Transplant Waiting List: A Caregiver-First Guide
The waiting list explained from a caregiver's vantage point.
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Liver Transplant Waiting List Map
U.S. transplant centers mapped, with center-level data.
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Living Donor Pathway
What living donor liver transplant involves, for patients and potential donors.
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Patient Rights
Second opinions, multi-listing, requesting evaluation at another center.
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In-depth articles
Explainers on donor types, organ perfusion, choosing a center and insurance.
- Aggressive MELD-Exception Advocacy: When Caregivers Need to Push
- DCD vs. Brain Death (DBD) Donors
- Extended Criteria Donors (ECD)
- HOPE Perfusion (Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion)
- How Long Is the Liver Transplant Waiting List in 2026?
- Insurance and Transplant: Why You Always Have to Call
- Local vs. Remote: Choosing the Right Center, Not Just the Closest
- Normothermic Machine Perfusion (NMP)
- OrganOx Metra vs. TransMedics OCS
- SRTR-Published Risk: Long-Wait + Medicaid States
- Top-Performer Centers: How the Flag Works
- Truncated Acuity Circles: Coastal and Border Centers
- Whole-Patient Evaluation vs. Strict-MELD Listing
Caregiver hub
Resources for the family members and caregivers who carry the operational load alongside the patient.
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Caregiver Resources
The caregiver landing page — orientation and entry points.
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Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Caregiver's Guide
Confusion, sleep changes and personality shifts in liver disease.
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Liver Transplant Caregiver Requirements
What transplant centers ask of a caregiver, and how to plan for it.
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Caregiver Burnout
The signs, and real help: respite, support groups, specific asks.
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End-Stage Liver Disease at the End of Life
Palliative care, hospice, and what families may see in the final weeks.
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Patient & Caregiver Checklist
Operational checklist for evaluation, waitlist, transplant week, and recovery.
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Caregiver Question Wiki
Structured question sets by clinical stage.
- Wait-time questions
- Survival questions
- Center quality questions
- MELD questions
- Disease questions
- Evaluation questions
- Insurance questions
- Living donor questions
- Pediatric questions
- Post-transplant questions
- Caregiver-direct questions
- Nutrition questions
- Emergency questions
- Mental health questions
- Liver transplant help (overview)
Stories & community
Patient narratives, remembrance, and longer-form writing from the foundation.
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Patient Video Stories
Real liver transplant patients on their journey.
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The Memorial Garden
A curated space of remembrance for people touched by the transplant journey.
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Blog
Longer-form articles and updates from National Friends.
Outreach & newsletter
Subscribe to The National Friends Post and manage your preferences.
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Newsletter
Bi-weekly plain-language updates on liver transplant pathways.
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Opt-in to the National Friends Post
Subscribe by phone (SMS) or email.
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Opt-out
Unsubscribe from SMS and email at any time.
Tools & data
Calculators, center-by-center data, and interactive tools for transplant center research.
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Data Assistant
AI-assisted exploration of liver transplant center data.
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MELD 3.0 and PELD Calculator
Calculate MELD 3.0 or PELD in your browser; nothing is sent to us.
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Liver Transplant Centers by State
Every U.S. liver transplant program: typical wait, odds of transplant within a year, and survival.
- Alabama: Children's of Alabama · UAB Hospital
- Arizona: Banner–UMC Phoenix · Banner–UMC Tucson · Mayo Clinic Arizona · Phoenix Children's · St. Joseph's Phoenix
- Arkansas: UAMS Medical Center
- California: CPMC San Francisco · Cedars-Sinai · Children's Hospital LA · Keck Medicine of USC · Loma Linda University · Stanford Children's · Rady Children's · Scripps Green Hospital · Stanford Health Care · UCSF Mission Bay · UCLA Medical Center · UC Davis Health · UC San Diego Health · UCSF Medical Center
- Colorado: Porter Adventist · Children's Colorado · Presbyterian/St. Luke's · UCHealth Univ. of Colorado
- Connecticut: Hartford Hospital · Yale New Haven
- Delaware: Nemours Children's Delaware
- District of Columbia: GW University Hospital · MedStar Georgetown
- Florida: Broward Health · Cleveland Clinic Florida · AdventHealth Orlando · Jackson Memorial Hospital · Largo Medical Center · Mayo Clinic Florida · Tampa General Hospital · UF Health Shands
- Georgia: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta · Emory University Hospital · Piedmont Atlanta
- Hawaii: Queen's Medical Center
- Illinois: Lurie Children's · Loyola Medicine · Northwestern Memorial · Rush University · UChicago Medicine · UI Health Chicago
- Indiana: IU Health
- Iowa: University of Iowa Hospitals
- Kansas: University of Kansas Health
- Kentucky: UofL Health Jewish Hospital · UK HealthCare
- Louisiana: Children's Hospital New Orleans · Ochsner Medical Center · Tulane Medical Center · Willis-Knighton
- Maryland: Johns Hopkins · University of Maryland
- Massachusetts: Beth Israel Deaconess · Boston Children's · Lahey Hospital · Mass General · Tufts Medical Center · UMass Memorial
- Michigan: Children's Hospital of Michigan · Henry Ford Hospital · Michigan Medicine · Beaumont Royal Oak
- Minnesota: Mayo Clinic Rochester · M Health Fairview
- Mississippi: UMMC Jackson
- Missouri: Barnes-Jewish Hospital · Cardinal Glennon Children's · Children's Mercy Kansas City · SSM Health SLU Hospital · St. Louis Children's · Saint Luke's Kansas City
- Nebraska: Nebraska Medicine
- New Jersey: Our Lady of Lourdes Camden · University Hospital Newark
- New York: Montefiore · Mount Sinai · NYP/Weill Cornell · NYU Langone · Northwell North Shore · NYP/Columbia · Strong Memorial (URMC) · Westchester Medical Center
- North Carolina: Atrium Health Carolinas · Duke University Hospital · UNC Hospitals
- Ohio: Cincinnati Children's · Nationwide Children's · Ohio State Wexner · Cleveland Clinic · University Hospitals Cleveland · UC Health Cincinnati
- Oklahoma: Integris Baptist · OU Health
- Oregon: OHSU · VA Portland
- Pennsylvania: Einstein Medical Center · Allegheny General · CHOP · Geisinger Medical Center · Penn Medicine (HUP) · Lehigh Valley Hospital · Penn State Hershey · Temple University Hospital · Jefferson University Hospital · UPMC Pittsburgh · UPMC Children's Pittsburgh · VA Pittsburgh
- Puerto Rico: Auxilio Mutuo
- South Carolina: MUSC
- South Dakota: Avera McKennan
- Tennessee: Le Bonheur Children's · Methodist University Hospital · Vanderbilt
- Texas: Baylor All Saints Fort Worth · Baylor Dallas · Baylor St. Luke's · Children's Health Dallas · Houston Methodist · Medical City Dallas · Memorial Hermann–TMC · Methodist Dallas · Methodist San Antonio · Houston VA (DeBakey) · Texas Children's · University Children's Health · University Health San Antonio · UT Southwestern
- Utah: Intermountain Medical Center · Primary Children's · University of Utah Health
- Virginia: VCU Health Hume-Lee · UVA Health
- Washington: Seattle Children's · Swedish Medical Center · UW Medical Center
- Wisconsin: Aurora St. Luke's · Children's Wisconsin · Froedtert Hospital · UW Health Madison
Organization
Who we are, who advises us, and how transplant centers can partner.
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About the Foundation
Mission, scope, and how we work.
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Medical Advisory Board
Clinicians and researchers who review our content.
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For Transplant Centers
Partnership pathways with U.S. liver transplant programs.
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