The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it will “decertify” an organ transplant agency run by the University of Miami Health System, saying a federal investigation “uncovered years of unsafe practices, poor training, chronic underperformance, understaffing, and paperwork errors.”

HHS said the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, part of UM, is being decertified by federal officials.

“An organ procurement organization must serve as the trusted custodian of every donated organ,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement announcing the decision . “Its job is to honor the gift of life by ensuring trained professionals recover every organ safely, match it fairly, and deliver it quickly to the patient who needs it most.”

“We will not allow any participan

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