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South Bay Hospitals Accused of Losing and Mishandling Patient Bodies
“What happened was so horrific.”
Three years later and Dana Venosta is still visibly shaken by how she says Good Samaritan Hospital staff handled her mother’s body when the 76-year-old woman passed away at the San Jose facility on February 4, 2018.
According to court documents filed in her 2019 lawsuit against the hospital, Venosta’s mother’s body went “missing” at the facility “because another body was stacked on top of it for days.” Good Sam and its parent company, HCA Healthcare, settled the suit and told the Investigative Unit staff failed to follow storage protocols and the error was corrected.
Read the full article at NBC Bay Area
Three years later and Dana Venosta is still visibly shaken by how she says Good Samaritan Hospital staff handled her mother’s body when the 76-year-old woman passed away at the San Jose facility on February 4, 2018.
According to court documents filed in her 2019 lawsuit against the hospital, Venosta’s mother’s body went “missing” at the facility “because another body was stacked on top of it for days.” Good Sam and its parent company, HCA Healthcare, settled the suit and told the Investigative Unit staff failed to follow storage protocols and the error was corrected.
Read the full article at NBC Bay Area