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re: Bring Us Your Memes: 2024 Election Day and Beyond
Posted by Night Vision on 8/7/26 at 1:28 pm to Night Vision
Even Fauci's wife's finger is crooked.
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re: Bring Us Your Memes: 2024 Election Day and Beyond
Posted by Night Vision on 8/7/26 at 1:27 pm to Lou
re: Bring Us Your Memes: 2024 Election Day and Beyond
Posted by Night Vision on 8/7/26 at 5:23 am to Kafka
re: All time wins heading into 2026 season
Posted by Night Vision on 8/7/26 at 5:09 am to Red Eagle
quote:
Is this with or without vacated wins?
Without.
We're over 1,000 if you count BS vacated wins.
Canadian Grandmother Euthanized Without Her Consent
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 10:01 am
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An 83-year-old Canadian grandmother was euthanized under the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying program on July 10, 2026, despite having previously declined it because of her Christian faith and without providing what her family describes as a final verbal confirmation of consent.
Brigitte Stegemann, known lovingly to her family as “GG,” died by lethal injection at The Pearl (formerly E.J. McQuigge Lodge), a long-term care facility in Belleville, Ontario, where she had lived for the previous two years.
She had been diagnosed with untreatable Stage IV stomach cancer about five months earlier.
Her granddaughter, also named Brigitte, held legal power of attorney and had served as her primary caregiver and advocate for more than 12 years. Facility staff routinely contacted the granddaughter for decisions about medications, treatments, and daily care.
Approximately two months before her death, Stegemann was asked about Medical Assistance in Dying.
According to her family’s public statement, she “clearly stated that she did not wish to pursue it.”
As a devout Christian, she said the practice conflicted with her personal beliefs and faith. She wanted to die naturally.
While the granddaughter was away on a 10-day vacation, facility staff held private discussions with Stegemann about MAiD without informing her family or any advocate. The family was never given a clear answer about who initiated those conversations, a serious concern given Stegemann’s diminished capacity, severe hearing impairment—she was completely deaf in her left ear and had very limited hearing in the right—and frequent periods of lethargy and unresponsiveness.
When the formal assessment occurred on July 6 and 7, the family described Stegemann’s sudden alertness as anomalous after days of near-unresponsiveness. During the capacity evaluation, the physician had to repeat questions repeatedly because of her hearing loss.
Stegemann repeatedly gave incorrect answers to basic questions about her own life.
When asked if she had any siblings, she said she had none—though she was the second-youngest of 14 children. She also said none of her siblings were still alive, even though some were and she had spoken with one the previous week.
She became disoriented, began to cry, and said, “I forgot about the grandkids,” confusing her living siblings with her great-grandchildren.
The family corrected the vast majority of her answers and the granddaughter objected directly, questioning how Stegemann could possibly be deemed capable of consenting to her own death.
The physician explained the procedure in language the family found euphemistic and misleading for an elderly woman of Stegemann’s background, describing it as receiving medication, feeling peace, falling asleep, and promising she “would not lose control of her bowels.”
The family was then ordered to leave the room.
The power-of-attorney holder’s request to remain was denied. When the physician emerged, she stated flatly, “I have deemed her capable of making her own decisions,” and informed the family that Stegemann had consented.
The procedure was scheduled for July 10.
The family was left “shocked and distressed.”
They later discovered that the death date had been set before any official MAiD application paperwork was completed. Facility staff, including the home manager, then filled out and witnessed the forms themselves without notifying the power of attorney, despite the family’s daily visits.
On July 8, the date was briefly advanced by a full day simply because the physician had an opening in her schedule. The home manager admitted she had personally completed the paperwork.
On the morning of July 10, the family took Stegemann outside to the patio for fresh air and a scoop of her favorite strawberry ice cream while waiting for her pastor to arrive.
Her clear wishes to be surrounded by family and to have her pastor present were treated as secondary to the schedule.
After returning to her room, an intravenous line was inserted amid what the family described as a significant, alarming amount of blood covering Stegemann, the bedding, and the surrounding area. When the physician arrived, Stegemann remained silent, her hands held in a prayer position, and gave no verbal response.
The family had been strictly assured that Stegemann would be asked for a final, explicit verbal confirmation on the day of the procedure to ensure she still wished to proceed.
“Tragically, we were left alarmed and horrified when the clinical team completely ignored her silence and carried the procedure forward regardless,” their statement said.
Stegemann was dead shortly afterward.
In their account, the family described what happened as “a systemic failure driven by clinical arrogance, a total lack of transparency, and a blatant disregard for the safeguards meant to protect vulnerable patients.”
Once a vulnerable patient had explicitly declined MAiD because it violated her Christian faith, the facility should never have targeted her for re-evaluation behind closed doors while her primary advocate was away—especially when staff had no difficulty contacting the granddaughter daily for routine decisions.
The family is now speaking out in the hope that Stegemann’s story will serve as a warning and an urgent call for greater clinical transparency, mandatory family inclusion for cognitively vulnerable patients, and strict legal accountability for facilities that operate outside the law.
Canada legalized Medical Assistance in Dying in 2016.
By April 2026 the country had already recorded more than 100,000 euthanasia deaths. Cases like Stegemann’s underscore the profound risks the system poses to elderly, hearing-impaired, and cognitively vulnerable patients whose prior refusals and diminished capacity are overridden in the name of “choice.”
An 83-year-old Canadian grandmother was euthanized under the country’s Medical Assistance in Dying program on July 10, 2026, despite having previously declined it because of her Christian faith and without providing what her family describes as a final verbal confirmation of consent.
Brigitte Stegemann, known lovingly to her family as “GG,” died by lethal injection at The Pearl (formerly E.J. McQuigge Lodge), a long-term care facility in Belleville, Ontario, where she had lived for the previous two years.
She had been diagnosed with untreatable Stage IV stomach cancer about five months earlier.
Her granddaughter, also named Brigitte, held legal power of attorney and had served as her primary caregiver and advocate for more than 12 years. Facility staff routinely contacted the granddaughter for decisions about medications, treatments, and daily care.
Approximately two months before her death, Stegemann was asked about Medical Assistance in Dying.
According to her family’s public statement, she “clearly stated that she did not wish to pursue it.”
As a devout Christian, she said the practice conflicted with her personal beliefs and faith. She wanted to die naturally.
While the granddaughter was away on a 10-day vacation, facility staff held private discussions with Stegemann about MAiD without informing her family or any advocate. The family was never given a clear answer about who initiated those conversations, a serious concern given Stegemann’s diminished capacity, severe hearing impairment—she was completely deaf in her left ear and had very limited hearing in the right—and frequent periods of lethargy and unresponsiveness.
When the formal assessment occurred on July 6 and 7, the family described Stegemann’s sudden alertness as anomalous after days of near-unresponsiveness. During the capacity evaluation, the physician had to repeat questions repeatedly because of her hearing loss.
Stegemann repeatedly gave incorrect answers to basic questions about her own life.
When asked if she had any siblings, she said she had none—though she was the second-youngest of 14 children. She also said none of her siblings were still alive, even though some were and she had spoken with one the previous week.
She became disoriented, began to cry, and said, “I forgot about the grandkids,” confusing her living siblings with her great-grandchildren.
The family corrected the vast majority of her answers and the granddaughter objected directly, questioning how Stegemann could possibly be deemed capable of consenting to her own death.
The physician explained the procedure in language the family found euphemistic and misleading for an elderly woman of Stegemann’s background, describing it as receiving medication, feeling peace, falling asleep, and promising she “would not lose control of her bowels.”
The family was then ordered to leave the room.
The power-of-attorney holder’s request to remain was denied. When the physician emerged, she stated flatly, “I have deemed her capable of making her own decisions,” and informed the family that Stegemann had consented.
The procedure was scheduled for July 10.
The family was left “shocked and distressed.”
They later discovered that the death date had been set before any official MAiD application paperwork was completed. Facility staff, including the home manager, then filled out and witnessed the forms themselves without notifying the power of attorney, despite the family’s daily visits.
On July 8, the date was briefly advanced by a full day simply because the physician had an opening in her schedule. The home manager admitted she had personally completed the paperwork.
On the morning of July 10, the family took Stegemann outside to the patio for fresh air and a scoop of her favorite strawberry ice cream while waiting for her pastor to arrive.
Her clear wishes to be surrounded by family and to have her pastor present were treated as secondary to the schedule.
After returning to her room, an intravenous line was inserted amid what the family described as a significant, alarming amount of blood covering Stegemann, the bedding, and the surrounding area. When the physician arrived, Stegemann remained silent, her hands held in a prayer position, and gave no verbal response.
The family had been strictly assured that Stegemann would be asked for a final, explicit verbal confirmation on the day of the procedure to ensure she still wished to proceed.
“Tragically, we were left alarmed and horrified when the clinical team completely ignored her silence and carried the procedure forward regardless,” their statement said.
Stegemann was dead shortly afterward.
In their account, the family described what happened as “a systemic failure driven by clinical arrogance, a total lack of transparency, and a blatant disregard for the safeguards meant to protect vulnerable patients.”
Once a vulnerable patient had explicitly declined MAiD because it violated her Christian faith, the facility should never have targeted her for re-evaluation behind closed doors while her primary advocate was away—especially when staff had no difficulty contacting the granddaughter daily for routine decisions.
The family is now speaking out in the hope that Stegemann’s story will serve as a warning and an urgent call for greater clinical transparency, mandatory family inclusion for cognitively vulnerable patients, and strict legal accountability for facilities that operate outside the law.
Canada legalized Medical Assistance in Dying in 2016.
By April 2026 the country had already recorded more than 100,000 euthanasia deaths. Cases like Stegemann’s underscore the profound risks the system poses to elderly, hearing-impaired, and cognitively vulnerable patients whose prior refusals and diminished capacity are overridden in the name of “choice.”
re: Bama QB future
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 9:28 am to nicholastiger
Thomalla and Kaawa aren't chopped liver.
re: 15 year anniversary of Extortion 17 deaths
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 9:22 am to Broke
They use Chinooks, but usually with their own pilots, not NG assets.
15 year anniversary of Extortion 17 deaths
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 9:04 am
Did Jug Ears and Hillary set them up?
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Thursday, August 6, 2026, marks the 15th anniversary of Extortion 17—the single greatest loss of American military life in one incident during the entire Afghanistan War. On that dark night in 2011, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down in Afghanistan’s Tangi Valley. All 30 Americans aboard perished, along with a military working dog.
Among the dead were 17 Navy SEALs (including members of SEAL Team Six/DEVGRU’s Gold Squadron), Naval Special Warfare support personnel, Army crew, and Air Force special tactics airmen. It remains the deadliest day in the history of Naval Special Warfare.
...
The “official” narrative holds that Extortion 17 was a tragic but essentially unlucky hit by enemy fighters with an RPG while the aircraft approached a landing zone to insert an immediate reaction force. Military investigations, including the Colt Report, concluded the planning and execution were sound and that chance played the decisive role.
Families of the fallen and those who have examined the record—including longtime Cowboy Logic guests—have raised pointed concerns that have never been fully resolved to their satisfaction.
This was a mission that should never have taken place in the form it did. The SEALs were launched as a Quick Reaction Force ostensibly to support or assist Army Rangers who were portrayed as pinned down or in a bad situation with the Taliban. That was not the case. The Rangers had secured their objective and were not requesting rescue or reinforcement of that nature. Records and accounts show the Rangers were not in retreat and did not call for the kind of QRF that was assembled. The decision to send the elite force anyway—crowded onto a single conventional Chinook—rare and unnecessary under the circumstances on the ground.
Retired Air Force Captain Joni Marquez was the fire control officer on the AC-130H gunship providing overwatch that night—“eyes in the sky.” In the Cowboy Logic interview and earlier accounts, she described watching surviving enemy fighters after Rangers engaged a group of insurgents. She and her crew requested permission to engage those remaining threats multiple times. Under the restrictive Obama-era Rules of Engagement, they were denied. Marquez has stated that those rules effectively prevented her crew from doing what they knew needed to be done, and that the denial sealed the fate of Extortion 17.
Former Navy JAG officer and author Don Brown, whose book Call Sign Extortion 17 dissects the official record, has long argued that the Colt Report reveals either gross negligence or a whitewash. Among the issues he has highlighted: the decision to fly a large contingent of elite operators on a single conventional National Guard Chinook rather than special operations aircraft; the absence of pre-assault fire to suppress threats around the landing zone; conflicting and shifting official accounts regarding the black box and cockpit voice recorder; and broader evidence discrepancies that families and independent reviewers say were never adequately addressed.
Billy and Karen Vaughn, parents of SOC Aaron Vaughn, have spent years seeking answers. In prior Cowboy Logic interviews and their own accounts, they have detailed the restrictive counterinsurgency Rules of Engagement that prioritized “winning hearts and minds” over force protection—explicitly limiting pre-assault fires even in an active firefight.
They have questioned why a conventional airframe was used for a high-risk special operations insertion, why the mission appeared rushed, and why families faced resistance and incomplete information when they pressed for clarity after the crash.
The Vaughns and others have also pointed to the public outing of SEAL Team 6 after the bin Laden raid roughly 90 days earlier. Media leaks to outlets including the New York Times and Washington Post, followed by then-Vice President Joe Biden’s public acknowledgment of the SEALs’ role at a high-profile event, violated long-standing special operations protocol for protecting the identities of those who carry out high-value missions.
A bullseye was placed on the backs of SEAL Team 6. Immediately afterward, Aaron Vaughn called his mother. Karen Vaughn has recounted that his tone was extremely serious: he told her to wipe her social media clean of any reference to him or his buddies because there was chatter and all of their lives—including hers—were possibly in danger. Ninety-three days later, he and his teammates were dead. The Vaughns and others have described this sequence as creating the conditions for payback.
Adding further insult, at the ramp ceremony at Bagram Air Base as the flag-draped caskets of the fallen prepared for their final flight home, a Muslim imam was allowed to offer a prayer. When the Vaughns obtained a translation of his Arabic words, it included language declaring that “the companions of the fire, the sinners and the infidels who are fodder for hell fire are not equal with the companions of heaven. The companions of heaven, Muslims are the winners.” The prayer damned the fallen American warriors as infidels destined for hellfire while proclaiming Muslims the winners and mocking the God of Moses. Billy Vaughn has called it a desecration of the bodies of American heroes by their own military’s decision to permit it.
These concerns center on a mission that was not required as framed, rules that constrained the ability of supporting aircraft to neutralize known threats, the choice of aircraft and force package, the public exposure of SEAL Team 6 that placed a target on their backs, an investigation that left families with more questions than answers, and the final indignity of the prayer over their caskets. Fifteen years later, the single largest loss of American life in the Afghanistan War still carries unresolved issues about how risk was managed and whether political constraints and decisions cost American lives.
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LINK
Thursday, August 6, 2026, marks the 15th anniversary of Extortion 17—the single greatest loss of American military life in one incident during the entire Afghanistan War. On that dark night in 2011, a CH-47 Chinook helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was shot down in Afghanistan’s Tangi Valley. All 30 Americans aboard perished, along with a military working dog.
Among the dead were 17 Navy SEALs (including members of SEAL Team Six/DEVGRU’s Gold Squadron), Naval Special Warfare support personnel, Army crew, and Air Force special tactics airmen. It remains the deadliest day in the history of Naval Special Warfare.
...
The “official” narrative holds that Extortion 17 was a tragic but essentially unlucky hit by enemy fighters with an RPG while the aircraft approached a landing zone to insert an immediate reaction force. Military investigations, including the Colt Report, concluded the planning and execution were sound and that chance played the decisive role.
Families of the fallen and those who have examined the record—including longtime Cowboy Logic guests—have raised pointed concerns that have never been fully resolved to their satisfaction.
This was a mission that should never have taken place in the form it did. The SEALs were launched as a Quick Reaction Force ostensibly to support or assist Army Rangers who were portrayed as pinned down or in a bad situation with the Taliban. That was not the case. The Rangers had secured their objective and were not requesting rescue or reinforcement of that nature. Records and accounts show the Rangers were not in retreat and did not call for the kind of QRF that was assembled. The decision to send the elite force anyway—crowded onto a single conventional Chinook—rare and unnecessary under the circumstances on the ground.
Retired Air Force Captain Joni Marquez was the fire control officer on the AC-130H gunship providing overwatch that night—“eyes in the sky.” In the Cowboy Logic interview and earlier accounts, she described watching surviving enemy fighters after Rangers engaged a group of insurgents. She and her crew requested permission to engage those remaining threats multiple times. Under the restrictive Obama-era Rules of Engagement, they were denied. Marquez has stated that those rules effectively prevented her crew from doing what they knew needed to be done, and that the denial sealed the fate of Extortion 17.
Former Navy JAG officer and author Don Brown, whose book Call Sign Extortion 17 dissects the official record, has long argued that the Colt Report reveals either gross negligence or a whitewash. Among the issues he has highlighted: the decision to fly a large contingent of elite operators on a single conventional National Guard Chinook rather than special operations aircraft; the absence of pre-assault fire to suppress threats around the landing zone; conflicting and shifting official accounts regarding the black box and cockpit voice recorder; and broader evidence discrepancies that families and independent reviewers say were never adequately addressed.
Billy and Karen Vaughn, parents of SOC Aaron Vaughn, have spent years seeking answers. In prior Cowboy Logic interviews and their own accounts, they have detailed the restrictive counterinsurgency Rules of Engagement that prioritized “winning hearts and minds” over force protection—explicitly limiting pre-assault fires even in an active firefight.
They have questioned why a conventional airframe was used for a high-risk special operations insertion, why the mission appeared rushed, and why families faced resistance and incomplete information when they pressed for clarity after the crash.
The Vaughns and others have also pointed to the public outing of SEAL Team 6 after the bin Laden raid roughly 90 days earlier. Media leaks to outlets including the New York Times and Washington Post, followed by then-Vice President Joe Biden’s public acknowledgment of the SEALs’ role at a high-profile event, violated long-standing special operations protocol for protecting the identities of those who carry out high-value missions.
A bullseye was placed on the backs of SEAL Team 6. Immediately afterward, Aaron Vaughn called his mother. Karen Vaughn has recounted that his tone was extremely serious: he told her to wipe her social media clean of any reference to him or his buddies because there was chatter and all of their lives—including hers—were possibly in danger. Ninety-three days later, he and his teammates were dead. The Vaughns and others have described this sequence as creating the conditions for payback.
Adding further insult, at the ramp ceremony at Bagram Air Base as the flag-draped caskets of the fallen prepared for their final flight home, a Muslim imam was allowed to offer a prayer. When the Vaughns obtained a translation of his Arabic words, it included language declaring that “the companions of the fire, the sinners and the infidels who are fodder for hell fire are not equal with the companions of heaven. The companions of heaven, Muslims are the winners.” The prayer damned the fallen American warriors as infidels destined for hellfire while proclaiming Muslims the winners and mocking the God of Moses. Billy Vaughn has called it a desecration of the bodies of American heroes by their own military’s decision to permit it.
These concerns center on a mission that was not required as framed, rules that constrained the ability of supporting aircraft to neutralize known threats, the choice of aircraft and force package, the public exposure of SEAL Team 6 that placed a target on their backs, an investigation that left families with more questions than answers, and the final indignity of the prayer over their caskets. Fifteen years later, the single largest loss of American life in the Afghanistan War still carries unresolved issues about how risk was managed and whether political constraints and decisions cost American lives.
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re: Bring Us Your Memes: 2024 Election Day and Beyond
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 8:50 am to Night Vision
re: Should SEC extend offers immediately
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 8:34 am to bamaoldtimer
You just looking at football fans or are you considering the schools other sports?
We don't need anymore teams from west of Louisiana.
We don't need anymore teams from west of Louisiana.
HHS Decertifies Program for Harvesting Organs on Patients Still Alive
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 8:23 am
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today began the decertification of Network for Hope, the federally designated organ procurement organization (OPO) serving Kentucky and parts of Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, after multiple federal reviews found persistent patient safety failures despite extensive oversight and despite Network for Hope having been provided repeated opportunities to correct them.
Those failures put prospective organ donors and patients awaiting lifesaving transplants at risk.
“Americans who choose to become organ donors deserve a system that honors their gift and protects every patient,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “Today’s action reflects the Trump Administration’s commitment to protecting the sanctity of life. Organizations that repeatedly fail to meet federal standards and put patients at risk will be held accountable.”
HHS’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decertification of the Network for Hope is part of Secretary Kennedy’s reform initiative announced in July 2025. Despite the Biden Administration’s awareness about the Network for Hope’s violation of patient safety, the organization was not held accountable during his administration.
In addition to CMS findings that are the basis of the decertification, between 2021 and 2024 HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) examined 351 cases where organ donation was authorized, but ultimately not completed at Network for Hope. It found:
• 103 cases (29.3%) showed concerning features, including 73 patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.
• That some potential donors may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated — raising serious 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.
In 2025, HRSA identified significant patient safety concerns involving Network for Hope and directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to implement a comprehensive corrective action plan and a monitoring program.
At the same time, HRSA and CMS initiated independent federal reviews: HRSA to assess whether the organization had corrected the identified deficiencies and CMS to assess whether the organization continued to meet federal requirements including the minimum standards to be certified by Medicare.
HRSA and CMS independently determined that Network of Hope failed to demonstrate sufficient improvement leading to the Secretary’s decision to begin the CMS decertification process.
“HRSA, through its oversight of the OPTN, worked closely with Network of Hope over the past year through intensive monitoring and corrective action to address serious patient safety concerns,” said HRSA Administrator Tom Engels. “Despite those efforts, the organization did not demonstrate the improvements necessary to meet federal standards. When organizations entrusted with the care of potential organ donors fail to meet those standards, we have a responsibility to act. Our priority is protecting patients, honoring the generosity of donor families, and ensuring every donated organ has the greatest possible opportunity to save a life.”
CMS’s comprehensive review of Network for Hope in May 2026 determined that prior quality concerns continued to surface implicating important functions of the OPO such as donor evaluation, review of adverse events, and administration.
“Today’s action to begin the decertification process sends a clear message, not just to organ transplant organizations, but to every provider that participates in CMS programs: If you can’t be trusted to safeguard patients and be responsible stewards of American taxpayer dollars, we’ll find organizations that can,” said CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Today’s decertification is the latest effort to save lives and protect organ donors.
The Trump Administration’s reforms to restore integrity and trust in the organ donation and procurement process include:
• Safeguards that prevent line-skipping in organ allocation, already protecting nearly 300 patients.
• A special election that achieved record turnout to install an independent OPTN board.
• A strengthened misconduct reporting system, giving patients and providers a direct channel for safety concerns.
• A transparency tool that shows when organs are allocated outside the standard match list.
• Removal of “DEI” provisions from the 2024 IOTA model to ensure fairness.
Secretary Kennedy has also directed all OPOs to appoint an OPTN Patient Safety Officer to oversee patient safety. These officers will be responsible for monitoring and investigating patient safety events in real time, serving as the first point of contact for families, hospital partners, and HRSA, documenting and reporting incidents and adverse events to OPTN, leading root cause analyses, and ensuring corrective actions are implemented.
This reform will lead to safer, fairer, and more reliable organ procurement, while strengthening accountability and preventing repeat failure.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today began the decertification of Network for Hope, the federally designated organ procurement organization (OPO) serving Kentucky and parts of Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia, after multiple federal reviews found persistent patient safety failures despite extensive oversight and despite Network for Hope having been provided repeated opportunities to correct them.
Those failures put prospective organ donors and patients awaiting lifesaving transplants at risk.
“Americans who choose to become organ donors deserve a system that honors their gift and protects every patient,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “Today’s action reflects the Trump Administration’s commitment to protecting the sanctity of life. Organizations that repeatedly fail to meet federal standards and put patients at risk will be held accountable.”
HHS’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decertification of the Network for Hope is part of Secretary Kennedy’s reform initiative announced in July 2025. Despite the Biden Administration’s awareness about the Network for Hope’s violation of patient safety, the organization was not held accountable during his administration.
In addition to CMS findings that are the basis of the decertification, between 2021 and 2024 HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) examined 351 cases where organ donation was authorized, but ultimately not completed at Network for Hope. It found:
• 103 cases (29.3%) showed concerning features, including 73 patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation.
• That some potential donors may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated — raising serious 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.
In 2025, HRSA identified significant patient safety concerns involving Network for Hope and directed the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) to implement a comprehensive corrective action plan and a monitoring program.
At the same time, HRSA and CMS initiated independent federal reviews: HRSA to assess whether the organization had corrected the identified deficiencies and CMS to assess whether the organization continued to meet federal requirements including the minimum standards to be certified by Medicare.
HRSA and CMS independently determined that Network of Hope failed to demonstrate sufficient improvement leading to the Secretary’s decision to begin the CMS decertification process.
“HRSA, through its oversight of the OPTN, worked closely with Network of Hope over the past year through intensive monitoring and corrective action to address serious patient safety concerns,” said HRSA Administrator Tom Engels. “Despite those efforts, the organization did not demonstrate the improvements necessary to meet federal standards. When organizations entrusted with the care of potential organ donors fail to meet those standards, we have a responsibility to act. Our priority is protecting patients, honoring the generosity of donor families, and ensuring every donated organ has the greatest possible opportunity to save a life.”
CMS’s comprehensive review of Network for Hope in May 2026 determined that prior quality concerns continued to surface implicating important functions of the OPO such as donor evaluation, review of adverse events, and administration.
“Today’s action to begin the decertification process sends a clear message, not just to organ transplant organizations, but to every provider that participates in CMS programs: If you can’t be trusted to safeguard patients and be responsible stewards of American taxpayer dollars, we’ll find organizations that can,” said CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz.
Today’s decertification is the latest effort to save lives and protect organ donors.
The Trump Administration’s reforms to restore integrity and trust in the organ donation and procurement process include:
• Safeguards that prevent line-skipping in organ allocation, already protecting nearly 300 patients.
• A special election that achieved record turnout to install an independent OPTN board.
• A strengthened misconduct reporting system, giving patients and providers a direct channel for safety concerns.
• A transparency tool that shows when organs are allocated outside the standard match list.
• Removal of “DEI” provisions from the 2024 IOTA model to ensure fairness.
Secretary Kennedy has also directed all OPOs to appoint an OPTN Patient Safety Officer to oversee patient safety. These officers will be responsible for monitoring and investigating patient safety events in real time, serving as the first point of contact for families, hospital partners, and HRSA, documenting and reporting incidents and adverse events to OPTN, leading root cause analyses, and ensuring corrective actions are implemented.
This reform will lead to safer, fairer, and more reliable organ procurement, while strengthening accountability and preventing repeat failure.
re: Bring Us Your Memes: 2024 Election Day and Beyond
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 8:14 am to Night Vision
re: Bring Us Your Memes: 2024 Election Day and Beyond
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 7:53 am to uggabugga
re: Pre-season Coaches Poll has released
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 7:52 am to Hussss
LSU student rape case.
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 7:47 am
re: Incidents of Cops using Flock Data to stalk exes & romantic interests are piling up
Posted by Night Vision on 8/6/26 at 6:27 am to ZZTOP
Most of the instances will never be reported or never caught.
re: Bring Us Your Memes: 2024 Election Day and Beyond
Posted by Night Vision on 8/5/26 at 6:03 pm to Night Vision
re: Bring Us Your Memes: 2024 Election Day and Beyond
Posted by Night Vision on 8/5/26 at 6:01 pm to Ailsa
re: Two men arrested for tearing down Flock camera in Lafayette
Posted by Night Vision on 8/5/26 at 6:01 pm to BitBuster
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