University of Pittsburgh Medical Center released from probation

Published on: Friday, September 30, 2016

Richmond, Va. – At a meeting by teleconference on Sept. 29, the OPTN/UNOS Board of Directors restored full member privileges for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).

The Board had placed UPMC on probation in June 2015. Its lung transplant program had an unusually high number of instances where they accepted lung offers for one transplant candidate, then transplanted another candidate at the program. This inappropriately limited opportunity for consideration of other candidates identified on the match run.

The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) is operated under contract with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Division of Transplantation, by United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). The OPTN brings together medical professionals, transplant recipients and donor families to develop national organ transplantation policy.