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Article: LA Times Report Says UNOS is Lax in Oversight.(United Network for Organ Sharing)(Brief article)
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- Transplant News
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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A Los Angeles Times investigation published October 22nd charged that the United Network for Organ Sharing often fails to detect or decisively fix problems at derelict hospitals -- even when patients are dying at excessive rates. When the agency does act, the article claims, it routinely keeps findings of its investigations secret, leaving patients and their families unaware of the potential risks.
In the past year, the newspaper reports, UNOS has been "blindsided" by life-threatening lapses at centers it oversees. After The Times uncovered such problems at two California programs, both abruptly closed.
"UNOS' failures in those cases are part of a larger ...