Readers 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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Just five short months ago, a widely publicized story on CNN led to the shutdown of the pediatric cardiothoracic surgery unit at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Florida. The reason? Babies were dying at an alarmingly high rate while undergoing surgery at the facility. No less than nine infants had died through 2013 after having heart surgery at St. Mary’s and at least one was paralyzed ...
Following a CNN report citing patient mortality rates three times the national average, St. Mary’s Medical Center in Florida permanently shut down its pediatric cardiothoracic surgery program. While the medical center states that the findings in the report were inaccurate, they have voluntarily ended the open heart surgery program. An article in International Business Times discusses the current state of the medical center and the nature ...
