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Report probes New Orleans hospital deaths

A state law enforcement investigators' report -- obtained by CNN from a confidential source close to the investigation -- into the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina provides new details about the events that occurred at Memorial Medical Center.

Medical experts never testified in Katrina hospital deaths

A New Orleans grand jury that declined to indict a doctor on charges that she murdered patients in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina never heard testimony from five medical experts brought in by the state to analyze the deaths.

Sources: New Orleans nurses offered immunity in deaths

Two nurses accused in the post-Katrina deaths of four patients at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center have been offered immunity to testify before a special grand jury, sources close to the investigation tell CNN.

Coroner: Katrina hospital deaths going to grand jury

A New Orleans grand jury will decide if a doctor and two nurses intentionally killed patients with injections before the hospital was evacuated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Orleans Parish coroner Frank Minyard said Tuesday.

Siblings defend doctor accused in hospital deaths

The siblings of a doctor accused in an affidavit of murdering four patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have come publicly to her defense.

'They pretended they were God'

In the desperate days after hurricane Katrina struck, a doctor and two nurses at a flooded New Orleans hospital allegedly killed four patients by giving them a lethal drug cocktail, Louisiana's top law enforcement official said Tuesday.

Three charged with second-degree murder in Katrina hospital deaths

A doctor and two nurses were charged with second-degree murder Tuesday after Louisiana's attorney general launched an extensive investigation to uncover whether hospital staff euthanized some patients after Hurricane Katrina hit, a source close to the case told CNN.

Family blames hospital for mother's death

Mark and Sandy LeBlanc said they trusted Tenet Health System Memorial Medical Center to protect his mother, Elvira, when Katrina struck New Orleans. Now they are suing the hospital claiming the hospital's negligence led to her death.

Katrina investigation focuses on more than one person

More than one medical professional is under scrutiny as a possible person of interest as Louisiana's attorney general investigates whether hospital workers resorted to euthanasia in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina shattered New Orleans, a source familiar with the investigation has told CNN.

Staff at New Orleans hospital debated euthanizing patients

Three days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, staff members at the city's Memorial Medical Center had repeated discussions about euthanizing patients they thought might not survive the ordeal, according to a doctor and nurse manager who were in the hospital at the time.

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