Babies die; hospital halts heart surgeries

Babies die; hospital halts heart surgeries

Parents of babies treated at Kentucky Children's say the hospital's effort to keep their mortality data a secret, coupled with troubling events over an eight-week period last year, makes them suspicious something at the hospital has gone terribly wrong.
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