UNOS Changes St. Vincent's Standing to Probation

Transplant News,  Sept, 2007  

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The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing Executive Committee has removed the designation of St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles as a "Member Not in Good Standing." In its place, St. Vincent will have probationary status until it completes a plan of correction to the satisfaction of the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors.

St. Vincent initially was declared a Member Not in Good Standing in March 2006, following OPTN findings of policy violations within the hospital's liver transplant program. The hospital voluntarily inactivated its liver transplant program in September 2005, and in 2006 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services revoked its designated program status for liver transplantation. The action restores St. Vincent's full membership privileges in the OPTN and UNOS.

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