A rendering of a renovated Jackson Memorial Hospital Diagnostic Testing Center, where the health system performs its organ transplants. (Photo provided by Jackson Health System)
Miami
The Miami Transplant Institute has temporarily suspended part of its adult heart transplant program while it undergoes “an in-depth review of our care.”
The decision came after pressure from the U.S. organ transplant network, which has opened an investigation into the Institute’s heart operations. Anonymous internal and external complaints about the heart program have also arisen.
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This story was originally published March 30, 2023 at 12:00 PM.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
