California hospital accused of losing bodies and failing to inform panicking families that their loved ones were dead

Jessie Peterson died at a Dignity Health hospital in California in April 2023 but her family didn't know until a year later. - (Superior Court of the State of California)

A California hospital system is under fire after a series of complaints which allege they lost bodies and failed to inform multiple families about the deaths of their relatives.

Dignity Health is accused of “callous, reckless, and outrageous failure” for not notifying families about their dead loved ones or issuing death certificates, SFGate reports. A 2022 health department audit, reviewed by SFGate, states one hospital, Mercy San Juan Medical Center, had significant failures when it came to processing the dead.