It started when CNN broadcast a story June 1 about the 464-bed hospital’s pediatric cardiothoracic-surgery program and its mortality rate and its latest development, was the resignation of St. Mary’s CEO David Carbone.
His exit came two days after the hospital closed the surgery program. St. Mary’s blamed “inaccurate media reports” for the closure, saying that the reports made it “significantly more challenging to build a sustainable volume.”