Sutter heart transplant program decertified

The heart transplant program at Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento has been decertified by the state Medi-Cal program, the latest sign of turbulence in California transplant programs. Health officials say the program did not perform enough operations to meet state requirements. For the time being, Medicare patients will still be eligible for operations. Earlier in the month, regulators stopped liver transplants at the University of California Irvine after allegations of wrongdoing. The widely-reported problems have led to calls for more oversight of the national organ transplant system.

- read this report from the Los Angeles Times