Mid-America Transplant Services

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In this Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 photo, the body of a potential organ donor lies on a bed at Mid-America Transplant Services in St. Louis. For decades, surgeons have traveled to far-off hospitals to remove organs and then raced back to transplant them before they lose viability, but that is changing due to work done at Mid-America Transplant Services, the nation's first free-standing, centralized organ retrieval center. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)