Florida hospital has very high infant death rate.

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1. St. Mary’s hospital in Palm Beach Florida hid infant death rates.
2. Specifically, infant deaths from heart surgery complications.
3. The hospital’s heart surgery program is only a few years old.
4. From 2011 to 2013, it did 48 infant open heart surgeries.
5. Of those 48, 6 babies died resulting in a 12.5% death rate.
6. The national average is 3.3%
7. The lead surgeon, Dr. Michael Black, may have lied to parents.
8. Allegedly, he said that no babies had died from complications.
9. Parents of the deceased children have filed a lawsuit.
10. One surgery on an infant can bring in $500k for the hospital.