AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Federal government strips Kentucky organ group of certification after investigators find patients showed signs of life
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decertified a Kentucky-based organ procurement nonprofit after federal reviewers found serious deficiencies in nearly a third of cases examined, including patients who were still alive when staff tried to harvest their organs. Kennedy announced the decision Wednesday in Lexington, Kentucky, making Network for Hope the first of roughly 55 […] The post Federal government strips Kentucky organ group of certification after investigators find patients showed signs of life appeared first on American Almanac .
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decertified a Kentucky-based organ procurement nonprofit after federal reviewers found serious deficiencies in nearly a third of cases examined, including patients who were still alive when staff tried to harvest their organs. Kennedy announced the decision Wednesday in Lexington, Kentucky, making Network for Hope the first of roughly 55 federally contracted organ procurement organizations ever shut down by the government. The Health Resources and Services Administration reviewed 351 cases where organ donation had been authorized but never completed at the nonprofit, and what investigators found was grim: 103 of those cases, 29.3 percent, showed what the agency called "concerning features." …Open