The new group tasked with retrieving organs for transplantation across South Florida and the Bahamas is already breaking records, just months after taking over operations from a decades-old nonprofit that was ordered shut by the federal government over safety-related issues and other concerns.
The South Florida Donor Network retrieved 79 organs from 24 donors in June, the highest monthly totals ever recorded in the South Florida donation service area, according to the nonprofit.
“In the short time that we’ve been in operation, I am so happy and humbled to report that more lives have been saved and healed through the heroic donors — the courageous families that confront that grief — to lead to somebody’s life being saved in this community than ever before in this short time,” Joseph “Joe” Ferreira, the network’s president and CEO, told a crowd filled with donor families, organ recipients, transplant hospital representatives, public officials and supporters during the grand opening of the organization’s new Miami Lakes headquarters earlier this month…