A new reality of organ donation

When a nightmare situation turns into the subject of a Health and Human Services Department investigation, people pay attention. Such is the case with misconduct in the nation’s organ transplant system.

Under Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Health Resources and Services Administration directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to investigate a Kentucky-based organ procurement organization and found “systemic disregard for the sanctity of life,” per the report’s title.