Whistleblowers Claim New Jersey Org for Organ Donations Coerced Harvesting
I hope whistleblowers from other states come forward.
Maybe HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was onto something this summer.
The Washington Examiner reported that whistleblowers have accused the New Jersey Organ and Tissue Sharing Network of violating patient safety rules.
The accusations include coercing patients to remove and harvest organs even if they show signs of life.
The publication received a detailed letter from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman David Schweikert (R-AZ):
One of the allegations against the NJTO involves the cover-up of a case involving the donation of a patient’s organs after circulatory death, wherte the patient continues to show neurological signs of life.
Smith and Scheikert include in their letter to NJTO the circumstances of a patient declared deceased at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden, New Jersey, who “reanimated” shortly after being taken into surgery. The legislators wrote to NJTO President Carolyn Welsh that their investigation indicates that she, as well as other NJTO staff, attempted to pressure hospital staff to continue with the surgery, which hospital staff ultimately refused to do.
Whistleblowers also alleged, according to the congressmen, that NJTO pressured families into consenting to organ donation for deceased loved ones or insisted that they did not need consent based upon information collected from the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission.
The Ways and Means leadership wrote that whistleblowers made them aware of “several cases where, even though patients had removed the donor designation from their licenses, NJTO allegedly did not consider that to be a change of the original authorization to be an organ donor.”
I looked up “New Jersey organ donation” on YouTube and a few videos…yikes.
- Seven years ago: Organ donations on the rise in NJ
- Three years ago: NJ residents are encouraged to consider organ donations
In July, Kennedy announced he would reform the organ transplant system after an investigation by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) revealed disturbing information.
“Our findings show that hospitals allowed the organ procurement process to begin when patients showed signs of life, and this is horrifying,” Kennedy said at the time. “The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants will be held accountable. The entire system must be fixed to ensure that every potential donor’s life is treated with the sanctity it deserves.”
The investigation found that out of the 351 cases it examined:
- 103 cases (29.3%) showed concerning features, including 73 patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.
- At least 28 patients may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated—raising serious ethical and legal questions.
- Evidence pointed to poor neurologic assessments, lack of coordination with medical teams, questionable consent practices, and misclassification of causes of death, particularly in overdose cases.
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I wonder if NJTO is a subsidiary of the CCP?
Who should be surprised. The parts can be valuable, and be more valuable to the hospital than a surviving patient, since they get all the value of harvested parts. Even if the parts are defective, they can still make money off of them. In the end, it is all about the money.
“Sharing Network.”
“What’s yours is mine!”
its getting even easier as the legalization of euthanasia has led to “coercion” to just do yourself in so lefty can get you off the welfare system or whatever other sick aims they have
That’s known as “monetizing our investment.”
now you cant confuse or conflate this with acts of passion
you know,,organ donations
Why does dystopian science fiction, like “A Gift From Earth” keep showing up as current news?
We WISH A Gift from Earth would turn up as current news. In that book, organ donation is ended on Plateau.
Yesterday, I saw a rerun of Law & Order, where the MD killed a patient so he could continue living high off the hog.
He was caught when the paperwork showed that the dead patient was given pain killers.
Old people are fairly indifferent to when they die, and if it does some good, well that’s okay. It’s a young person’s fear that they get off’d.
How do you know?
It’s an overly collectivist claim. While I wouldn’t go so far as to say that this sentiment exists in anywhere near a majority of the old, I strongly suspect that its incidence of adoption increases with age, and reaches a maximum in people who have a definite deadline.
This should be a crime. The natural penalty is involuntary donation of the organs coerced. A return to an Eye for an Eye.
I plan on using up all of my organs; therefore, I’m not a good candidate for donation.
Working on that liver, eh?
a close examination of several Florida hospitals would not go ammiss
IIRC, everyone makes good money but the donor and the family when one donates organs.
I’m not an organ donor and I find the entire industry a big ghoulish.