After nearly a year, Memorial Hermann Hospital’s Abdominal Transplant Program has been reactivated.
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This comes after the board of directors met in February 2024 at the Organ Procurement and Transportation Network (OPTN) and declared Memorial Hermann Hospital, University of Texas at Houston, a member not in good standing.
Memorial Hermann, a transplant hospital in the Texas Medical Center faced this designation due to serious violations of OPTN policies and bylaws, as well as lapses in patient safety and quality of care. It is also the most severe action the OPTN can take independently, according to its bylaws.
However, as of Thursday, April 3, the hospital announced they have received the support from OPTN Membership and Professional Standards Committee to reactivate their program.
See below for Memorial Hermann’s full statement:
“We are pleased to confirm that we have officially reactivated Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center’s Abdominal Transplant Program, effective April 3, 2025. We have fully cooperated with all regulatory agencies and swiftly implemented corrective actions after voluntarily pausing the program in March 2024. The goal since then has always been to reactivate the program as quickly and as safely as possible, and we now have support from Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Membership and Professional Standards Committee to do so. Above and beyond the corrective actions already taken, we have also implemented several crucial changes – including strategic personnel and leadership governance and structural changes – to ensure the smooth, effective and efficient reactivation of the program. Throughout this time, our foremost priority has been – and continues to be – ensuring the continuity of high-quality care for our patients. We now look forward to safely resuming our Abdominal Transplant Program so we can continue serving the hundreds of patients who rely on our team for care.”
