A review into the provision of maternity services at Portiuncula Hospital in Co Galway will be completed shortly.
The external inquiry is almost finished but its findings will be given to families whose care is being reviewed, before the report is published.
A number of families at the centre of the long-awaited review have criticised what they describe as the "attempted cover-up of the failings in care at the maternity unit by some hospital staff".
In a statement this morning the Saolta University Health Care Group, which oversees the management of Portiuncula, said it had apologised to all families concerned for "failings in care" provided to them.
The group has also issued an unreserved apology to Lorraine and Warren Reilly for failings that contributed to the "likely preventable deaths" of two of their children.
The hospital group says internal communications regarding a review in 2011 of care after the second child died in 2010 raised a number of very concerning matters.
It has distanced itself from some comments and remarks from Health Service Executive personnel, contained in documents released under data protection legislation.
Some of the 16 families involved in the inquiry have met the chairman of the review group, Professor James Walker, and other members of the Clinical Review Team.
These confidential, individual family meetings took place in Ballinasloe recently.
The Saolta group says regular and on-going re-audits at the maternity unit at Portiuncula University Hospital have confirmed that there is no continuing patient safety concern arising from the issues identified.
