Sending hospitals the wrong organ. Severe understaffing. Failing to properly identify at least one organ that tested positive for an infectious disease known to cause complications in transplant patients.
Those are some of the reasons why the Miami-based nonprofit tasked with recovering organs for transplantation across South Florida and the Bahamas was ordered shut down last year by the federal government, records show.
A 32-page report recently obtained by the Miami Herald through a public records request details the troubling and repeated issues that were recorded over the past seven years at the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, a division of the University of Miami Health System…