For the first time ever, federal officials are moving to fire an organization that coordinates organ donations in the United States.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), just announced plans to decertify the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, a University of Miami-based organ procurement organization.
The move comes, he said, after investigators found years of unsafe practices, poor training, understaffing and paperwork errors that endangered patients and undermined public trust…