Claim: Says it's "estimated that 300 babies a year are sent home from the hospital with an unrecognized congenital heart defect; it is the most common birth defect in America."
Fact-check: Bob Deuell says about 300 infants leave hospital every year with an unrecognized heart defect
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2013-05-21T00:00:00