A California woman who went to a hospital with intense labor pains claimed in a lawsuit that she was refused help, which resulted in her giving birth in the hospital parking lot to a premature baby who later died.
Hannah Michaelis, 30, was six months pregnant with her first child on May 4, 2024, when she and her mother, Carla Michaelis, drove to Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa, a city in east San Diego, for treatment for “cramping and pain.” According to the lawsuit and a recounting of their experience to the San Diego Union-Tribune, Hannah Michaelis was sent home and told to see her regular doctor at a different hospital.
But her pain only got worse, and while in “excruciating pain” from contractions, Hannah Michaelis and her mother had returned to Sharp Grossmont Hospital the following day when, according to the lawsuit, hospital staff “denied Hannah entry to the hospital and refused to provide medical care.”…