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Objective: Establish associations between a 40 month period of work of a public liver center unit and characteristics of liver transplant recipients before and after that period. Methods: Retrospective data was collected from the data base SINTRA/INCUCAI. Comparison between: 1e01/05/ 2009e31/12/2012 (before Hospital El Cruce/HEC) and 2e 01/01/2013e31/08/2016 (after HEC). The outcomes evaluated were: total transplants performed and divided by public/private centers, access to list, 24 h mortality, organ assignment order, waiting list time/WLT, donor per million habitants. Comparisons were performed by Wilcoxon Rank Sum test. Results: the median amount of transplant in Argentina during the last 6 years was 107 in each 4 month-period. In our center, 142 interventions were realized, with a median of 13 per 4 months; this represents 40% of the liver transplants/LT performed in public centers, and 11% across the country. There was statistical difference in the MELD score to access a LT (24 vs 26, p 0,0210), WLT (46 vs 72 days p 0,0012), donors per million (15 vs 13 p 0,0049), patients being transplanted in a public center (19 vs 30 p 0,0011). No difference was observed in the transplants performed across Argentina, at private centers, MELD/Emergency status, organ assignment order and 24 h mortality. Conclusion: MELD score and LTs performed in public centers increased; without impact in the global amount, and