Stuart said her organization’s “financial situation” would probably not justify such a loan, and that “morally” she wouldn’t want to accept federal funds that might be more needed for others to “survive.”
Then she told Mone that, “when all of this is over and we return to some form of normalcy, OPOs are again going to be under the spotlight based on the President’s executive order to investigate the finances of OPOs.”
She warned, “If it is uncovered that some OPOs with large reserves have taken this loan/grant, the newspapers and lawmakers could turn this into a negative public hearing which we want to avoid.”
OneLegacy may have taken Stuart’s advice to heart.
In response to POGO, OneLegacy said that, in the end, it was decided federal money was no longer necessary, and it was refused. In fact, the funds were never intended for OneLegacy itself, but were applied for by its legally separate foundation, an entity not subject to UNOS or federal oversight.
OneLegacy told POGO that, “due to our rapid adoption of donor testing and identifying active transplant centers, we were able to continue organ donation as usual … without taking a PPP loan or any other additional federal or private financial support.”
Yet the OneLegacy Foundation, where federal money would have actually gone, does not engage in organ recovery directly. According to its website, its function is, “to support the mission of OneLegacy,” by various other means. And some of that support has drawn critical scrutiny from Congress because it can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, spent on everything from sponsorship of a float in the Rose Bowl parade, to outreach to Hollywood, so “film companies, television programs, entertainment studios, producers and writers have access to a network of experts,” according to a OneLegacy press release. Such projects, OneLegacy says, help it promote support and understanding for organ-donation, and raise money.
As it happens, OneLegacy is also one of the 32 organ procurement organizations that Health and Human Services has found would be non-compliant with proposed regulations on both donation and transplantation rates, and in an October 2019 oversight letter, Porter (in whose district OneLegacy is located) labeled the contractor as “one of the worst performing OPOs in the country.”
In the same letter, Porter also pointed to the results of a 2010 Health and Human Services inspector general audit of OneLegacy. The audit found, among other things, that the group spent $327,000 on a Rose Bowl game and parade, “including float design and framework, football tickets, hotel rooms, limousines and flowers.” She also wrote that, “OneLegacy has continued to spend money on the Rose Bowl and submit a portion of its $75,000 per year float-sponsorship expenses to Medicare.”
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