MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) – A Madison County family is raising awareness about safe organ procurement nearly three months after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came to Kentucky to decertify the state’s organ procurement organization, Network for Hope.
The family is working to make sure the next organization puts patients first.
Network for Hope decertified in August
Network for Hope is the organ procurement organization, or OPO, in Kentucky. It was decertified in August. It has until Nov. 4 to appeal the decertification.
Donna Rhorer organized a conversation Tuesday night about what safe organ procurement means to the people who attended. Steve Masters, pastor of New Life Worship in Richmond, said at the gathering, “a person should be able to be a donor without the worry of what may or may not happen.”…