Talk:Mercy San Juan Medical Center
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Mercy San Juan High School
[edit]There used to be a Mercy San Juan High School adjacent to the hospital. Is it gone? My guess is yes, as it produced more than its share of Sacramento-area delinquents, similar to Holy Family School down the road a bit.
Lawsuit content issues
[edit]This is the removed text: In August 2024, Mercy San Juan Medical Center and their parent organization, Dignity Health were sued for "malicious and outrageous" conduct by the family of Jessie Peterson. They had been told in April 2023 that Peterson had checked out of the hospital, when in fact she had died in the care of Mercy San Juan. The hospital had then shipped Peterson's body to a storage facility, and did not inform her family. The family did not learn of Peterson's death until April 2024. When Peterson's body was recovered, it was too decayed to determine if her death was the result of medical malpractice
This is the source: When Ginger Congi called Mercy San Juan Medical Center in April 2023, looking for her daughter, staff at the Sacramento hospital allegedly said her daughter had been discharged.
Jessie Peterson, 31, had been admitted to the hospital days earlier after experiencing a diabetic episode, according to a lawsuit filed this month in Sacramento County Superior Court. Now, she had disappeared. Congi searched for Peterson for over a year, reporting her as missing to the county sheriff’s office and federal law enforcement, the lawsuit states.
It was only this April that Congi said she learned where her daughter was: decaying in a cold storage facility.
Peterson had died at Mercy San Juan days after being admitted, and her body was sent to a warehouse morgue, according to the lawsuit. Hospital staff allegedly never informed Peterson’s family of her death.
When the family recovered Peterson’s body, it was so badly decomposed that she couldn’t be identified by her tattoos and an open casket funeral was impossible, according to the lawsuit. Mercy San Juan hospital allegedly never apologized.
The lawsuit filed by Congi and two of Peterson’s sisters against Dignity Health, which operates Mercy San Juan, seeks tens of millions of dollars in damages for how the hospital allegedly treated Peterson’s body and failed to notify her family of her death.
Congi last heard from her daughter on April 8, 2023, two days after Peterson was admitted to Mercy San Juan, according to the lawsuit. That afternoon, Peterson allegedly called Congi asking to be picked up because she wanted to leave. Peterson sounded to Congi like she was doing better, Greenberg said, and Congi encouraged her to continue recovering at the hospital. She promised her daughter that she would visit.
Peterson died at Mercy San Juan about two hours later, the lawsuit states.
I could go on but the WP uses quite clear attribution and mention that these are not facts but accusations and allegations yet to be proven in a court of law, the text in the article instead implied these were facts. A serious NPOV violation considering this is an on-going legal matter. Traumnovelle (talk) 04:28, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- I believe it might be reasonable to cover the lawsuit briefly, eg:
In August 2024, Mercy San Juan Medical Center and their parent organization, Dignity Health were sued for "malicious and outrageous" conduct by the family of Jessie Peterson. According to the lawsuit, the Peterson family claimed the hospital grossly mislead them about the death of Jessie and is seeking over ten million dollars in damages.
- @Traumnovelle I agree that the length of the removed text without proper attribution and language typical of a pending lawsuit was undue. Kcmastrpc (talk) 12:50, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- The only issue with that is that there is pretty much no other content on the hospital right now. That sentence isn't problematic but I do think some more content should be added to the article. Will take a look now at some basic online sources. Traumnovelle (talk) 17:39, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- It is isn't easy to find anything that isn't simply generic news and the one article I can find is erroneously blocking me for using an adblocker. [1] Traumnovelle (talk) 18:04, 16 October 2024 (UTC)
- The only issue with that is that there is pretty much no other content on the hospital right now. That sentence isn't problematic but I do think some more content should be added to the article. Will take a look now at some basic online sources. Traumnovelle (talk) 17:39, 16 October 2024 (UTC)