A University of Miami organ procurement agency is being closed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over safety issues that date back a decade, officials said.

The decertification of the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, a division of the University of Miami Health System, was announced Thursday by HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.

In a news release , HHS said the move was made after an investigation found "years of unsafe practices, poor training, chronic underperformance, understaffing, and paperwork errors."

In one case from 2024, a mistake led to a surgeon declining a donated heart for a patient awaiting a transplant, HHS said.

"Every American should feel safe becoming an organ donor and giving the gift of life, yet decades of ignored patient safety concerns have

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