Panel cites UMass hospital 'red flags'
Lack of leadership in heart unit faulted
One month after UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester abruptly stopped doing heart surgeries, a team of specialists reviewing the high death rate among cardiac-bypass patients said that it had found ''many red flags" and that the underlying problem has been a lack of leadership at an institution that experienced several years of upheaval. (Full article: 822 words)
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