Overview
- The Ways and Means Committee publicly requested documents and more than 30 transcribed interviews from NJ Sharing Network, warning it will use subpoenas if necessary.
- Investigators say the CEO, Carolyn Welsh, told staff to continue an organ recovery at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden after the patient showed signs of life, but hospital staff halted the procedure.
- Whistleblowers allege families were pressured for consent or told it was unnecessary based on motor vehicle records, and that documentation was deleted or manipulated, potentially misleading Congress.
- The committee cites evidence of organs being allocated out of sequence at rates above national norms, including a case where hundreds of waitlist patients were skipped and dozens later died.
- Lawmakers also point to an alleged single‑day discard of 100 pancreata, disputing NJTO’s denial, and place the probe within broader federal enforcement that recently included the decertification of Miami’s Life Alliance.