Several hospitals in California lied to families about what happened to their loved ones after they died, according to multiple lawsuits filed in the Golden State.
According to an investigative story by SFGate, the Dignity Health medical group is the target of several lawsuits filed by families of people who apparently died while under their hospitals’ care. Law&Crime reviewed three of the lawsuits in question — which have all been answered by Dignity Health and are still ongoing — and found claims by families involving accusations of possible organ harvesting without consent, blatantly lying about a patient checking herself out “against medical advice,” and sending deceased patients to offsite mortuaries where their bodies decomposed.
One story told by SFGate involved 31-year-old Jessie Peterson, who had been diagnosed with Type I diabetes as a child and was hospitalized several times due to her condition. According to the lawsuit, Peterson was admitted to Mercy San Juan Medical Center in Sacramento on April 6, 2023, following a “diabetic episode.” On April 8, 2023, Peterson called her mother at 2:50 p.m. to be picked up, but her mother, Ginger Congi, told her to stay…