Mercy San Juan

US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she’d died | California

It’s hard to wrap my head around the horrifying story of Jessie Peterson and her family’s unimaginable ordeal with Mercy San Juan medical center in Sacramento. The fact that a hospital could mistakenly tell a family that their loved one had checked out, only to later reveal that she had actually passed away in their care is beyond comprehension. The level of negligence, incompetence, and lack of basic humanity displayed by the hospital is truly shocking.

Reading about how Jessie’s body was sent to a storage facility, her death certificate delayed for a year, and the impossibility of conducting an autopsy due to the state of her remains is deeply disturbing.… Continue reading