HHS decertifies Kentucky organ procurement organization over patient safety
Plus: Senate passes stopgap funding bill through December 11. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
Plus: Senate passes stopgap funding bill through December 11. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
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HHS decertifies Kentucky organ procurement organization over patient safety
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Plus: Senate passes stopgap funding bill through December 11. The day's rules, money, and enforcement, sourced and tiered below.
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Enforcement Confidence: Medium
The federal government pulled the certification of Network for Hope, the organization responsible for coordinating organ donation across Kentucky and parts of Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia, over patient safety failures.
Reviewers found 28 of 351 examined organ-donation cases may have involved patients who weren't yet deceased when procurement began. Network for Hope plans to appeal; the finding is only the second OPO decertification ever.
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Why it matters
This is only the second time the federal government has ever pulled an organ procurement group's certification, and it centers on whether patients were treated as deceased before they actually were. Watch whether Network for Hope's appeal succeeds and whether other OPOs face similar scrutiny.
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Rule Confidence: Medium
The Senate voted 90 to 6 early Saturday to fund the government through December 11, averting a shutdown before the midterms and continuing WIC, the nutrition program for low-income mothers and children.
The bill also delays a ban on hemp-derived THC products from November 12 to December 11 after a White House push. It now goes to the House, which passed a different, more bare-bones funding patch before its recess.
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Why it matters
This averts a government shutdown before the midterms and keeps WIC and other programs funded through December 11, but it still needs House agreement on a bill that differs from what the House already passed. Watch whether the House accepts the Senate version or a standoff develops closer to the new deadline.
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