The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stated that it is proceeding to shut down a major organ purchase organization among tasks to improve the country’s organ transplant system.
The HHS stated that an investigation “highlighted the years of unsecured practices, poor training, chronic underperformance, disturbing and paperwork errors.”
If it is completed, this step will be the first time when the federal government has declined an organ procurement organization.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior said, “We are working due to years of the years of dominated patient safety data failures and federal needs, and we intend to serve as a clear warning.”
The agency is proceeding to shut down the Life Alliance Organ recovery agency, a division of Miami University’s health system. Kennedy said that the organization “is a long record of shortcomings related to the patient’s loss.”
The organization can appeal to the decision.
The Association of Organ Procurement Organization said that the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency serves six counties in South Florida and 7 million people in the Bahmas Commonwealth.
The Life Alliance Organization is one of the 55 organ procurement organizations across the country.
They are responsible for the coordination of the recovery of organs for transplantation in the US, who focus on specific geographical areas, work with hospitals to identify potential donors, evaluate medical suitability, obtain authority from families, and ensure safe recovery of organs.
Kennedy said in a statement, “An organ procurement organization should act as a reliable patron of every donated organ.” “We will not allow any participant to cut corners with human life, and we hold every institution in the transplant system to the highest standards of safety and accountability.”
Kennedy said that the lack of staff alone in the Miami organization could be due to eight missed organ recovery every week.
Earlier this year, a comprehensive investigation was revealed earlier this year revealed that Kennedy said that an organ purchase organization serving Kentki, South -West Ohio and West Virginia had “horrific” problems.
According to HHS, at least 28 patients could not be dead when the purchase of the organ was started.
Medicare and Medicade Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said, “We are going to be more difficult than ever because if we lose faith in the limb transplant system of this country, tens of thousand people are going to die annually, whose life can be saved,” Medicare and Medicade Services Administrators said.
“We are sending a hard message to all other non -profit organs procurement agencies’ outfits … we want them to know that the city has a new sheriff, and if they don’t take care of American people then we are coming for them,” Oz said.
