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The Trump administration said Wednesday it will shut down a Kentucky organ donation group accused of continuing plans for organ retrieval from some patients who unexpectedly showed signs of life.<\/p>\n

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While those surgeries were canceled, the cases made headlines several years ago, prompting a spike in people around the country revoking their organ donor registrations.<\/p>\n

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the nonprofit Network for Hope \u201ca bad apple\u201d and accused it of \u201cpersistent safety failures\u201d in announcing the government was starting the process to decertify it.<\/p>\n

Network for Hope is one of about 55 organ procurement organizations, or OPOs, that coordinate the recovery of organs from deceased donors and help match them to patients on the nation\u2019s transplant list. In a statement, Network for Hope said it \u201cstrongly disagrees\u201d with Kennedy\u2019s decision and will appeal.<\/p>\n

Among the allegations is that in 2021, Network for Hope\u2019s predecessor organization pressured a local hospital to proceed with plans to withdraw life support and retrieve organs from a man despite signs that he was waking up from a drug overdose. The man survived and his sister joined Kennedy at a press briefing Wednesday, thanking him.<\/p>\n

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OPOs cannot declare if someone is dead \u2014 only a doctor at the hospital treating the person can do that. Only after that declaration can a donor agency assume responsibility for the deceased, looking for potential recipients and scheduling surgeons to come in to retrieve the organs. Most donations come from people declared brain-dead. But sometimes doctors say a patient has a nonsurvivable injury and the family decides to withdraw life support \u2014 and in certain circumstances, that also can allow for donation.<\/p>\n

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In its statement, Network for Hope said it complies with all federal organ policies. It said that over a year ago it implemented a \u201cfirst-of-its-kind\u201d new safeguard allowing anyone \u2014 including health professionals or family members \u2014 to call a pause in donation planning if there\u2019s any concern the patient won\u2019t be appropriate.<\/p>\n

Kentucky recently passed a law mandating that pause and the federal Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network is working on new rules that also would require all the nation\u2019s OPOs to implement it.<\/p>\n

More than 100,000 people are on the U.S. transplant list, the vast majority seeking a kidney, and thousands will die waiting for a new organ. There were more than 49,000 transplants last year, a record despite a small drop in donations from the deceased \u2014 the first such dip in a decade.<\/p>\n

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