Johns Hopkins Pediatric Hospital in Florida Suffers Soaring Surgical Mortality Rate

The prestigiousJohns Hopkins Health System acquiredAll Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2011 (see:All Children's Hospital Joins Johns Hopkins Medicine). This was a non-cash transaction and the first U.S. hospital outside of the Baltimore/Washington, D.C., region to become integrated with JHM. As reported recently, this move has been the source of extreme embarrassment for Johns Hopkins as reported in a recentTampa Bay Times article (see:Top All Children ’s executives resign following Times report on heart surgeries). Below is an excerpt from it:The CEO ofJohns Hopkins All Children ’s Hospital and two other hospital administrators have resigned following...an investigation that found dramatic increases in the hospital ’s mortality rates for heart surgeries....In a statement, the health system said All Children ’s CEO Dr. Jonathan Ellen, Vice President Jackie Crain and deputy director of the hospital’s Heart Institute Dr. Jeffrey Jacobs had resigned. Dr. Paul Colombani also stepped down as chair of the department of surgery....The...mortality rate at the hospital ’s Heart Institute tripled between 2015 and 2017. Last year, it was the highest of any pediatric heart surgery program in Florida.....[T]he board of Johns Hopkins Medicine, which owns and operates All Children ’s,...commissioned an external review of the issues within the heart program.....The...investigation reported that four physician assistants asked for a meeting...
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