Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans on Thursday to reform the nation’s organ transplant system, including a move to decertify one organ procurement organization.
Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency in South Florida, one of 55 nonprofits nationwide with federal contracts to coordinate transplants, now faces decertification, a move that would effectively shut it down. Officials said the decision is intended as a warning to other groups to improve or risk the same outcome. The secretary said Life Alliance has “a long record of deficiencies directly tied to patient harm.”
“Every American should feel safe becoming an organ donor and giving the gift of life, yet decades of ignored patient safety concerns have driven more and more Americans off the donor list,” Kennedy said. “Today, under President Trump’s leadership, we are taking bold action and historic action to restore trust in the organ procurement process.”
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