Jessie Peterson’s family spent a year searching for her after they were told that she had checked herself out of a California hospital against medical advice – before they learned that she had been dead all along.
The 31-year-old died in the care of Mercy San Juan medical center in Sacramento in April 2023. The hospital shipped her body to a storage facility and did not inform her mother and sisters. The family only learned her fate the following April after months of trying to find her, according to a civil lawsuit against the hospital.
In the lawsuit, filed earlier this month, the family described the hospital’s conduct as “malicious and outrageous” and accused the facility of negligence, the negligent handling of a corpse and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
To be fair they said she was not with us anymore. okay really bad for /s but I dunno the whole thing like everything in this millenium is just so crazy fucked up crying type of laughter.
There might be miscommunication in the beginning, but if the family is showing up at the coroner’s office and repeatedly asking the hospital for information, that should have sparked an investigation by the hospital.