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Philadelphia Hospital Under Fire for Pediatric Surgery Deaths

st. christopher's hospital for children under fire for child surgery deathsReaders of the Lopez McHugh blog will recall our coverage of St. Mary’s Medical Center in Florida. The hospital, owned by Tenet Healthcare Corp., was the subject of an investigation and statistical analysis by a Johns Hopkins cardiac surgery professor.

That analysis showed that the hospital had a pediatric cardiothoracic surgery mortality rate that was three times the national average. Once CNN reported on the ...

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