Life Legal regularly receives calls from family members of patients who are mistreated or denied care in hospitals around the country. These are often extraordinarily difficult cases that require immediate, life-saving action. Over the weekend, one of my family members required Life Legal’s intervention. On Saturday evening, I visited my sister’s father-in-law Louis in the …
VICTORY: Patient rescued from life-threatening “care” Read More »
Last week, I had the privilege of spending an afternoon with the family of two-year old Mirranda Lawson, who is on a ventilator at a Virginia hospital after inhaling a popcorn kernel in May. The family has been working with a Life Legal attorney in an attempt to have the hospital facilitate Mirranda’s transfer to …
While on the East Coast, I had the opportunity to meet a young woman who was largely unresponsive after she went into cardiac arrest. The decision was made to put her in hospice and to starve her to death. Two days after arriving in hospice, the young woman began to speak and move her arms and legs. …
The young woman we wrote about in a previous post (June 5) was moved back to the hospital and is receiving nutrition and medical care. It did, however, take a court order to save her life. The woman had suffered an anoxic brain injury following cardiac arrest and her parents believed she had no hope …
Two distressing phone calls today. One from the niece of an elderly woman who is in the hospital following an injury. She has slight dementia, but is able to communicate. The hospital decided it would no longer treat her, as care was “futile” because of the woman’s dementia. The woman’s niece tried to get a …
Israel Stinson was transferred out of Kaiser Medical Center this weekend!!! He has been taken to another hospital and is currently receiving care. To protect Israel?s privacy and security, we are not yet able to disclose where he is, but we can say this? In order for Israel to receive the care he desperately needs, …
Victory: Baby Israel Transferred to New Hospital!!! Read More »
Life Legal appeared in federal court yesterday in the case of Fonseca v. Kaiser Permanente on behalf of two-year-old Israel Stinson. Israel’s parents are seeking a preliminary injunction to keep him on life support while they find another hospital that will accept Israel as a transfer patient. Life Legal Executive Director Alexandra Snyder with brain death expert …
ROSEVILLE, Calif., May 11, 2016 – The following is a statement from Jonee Fonseca, Israel Stinson’s Mother: It has been well over a month now that my fiancé and I have been fighting for our two-year-old son Israel’s life. Doctors at Kaiser Roseville Medical Center declared Israel “brain dead” after an asthma attack left him …
Statement of Jonee Fonseca, Israel Stinson’s Mother Read More »
Israel Stinson, a two-year old with a severe brain injury is on life support at a Sacramento area hospital. He was declared “brain dead” three weeks ago, but has been moving and even breathing “over” or in addition to the ventilator at times. I have seen Israel move his upper body in response to my …
THANK YOU for your prayers and your overwhelming support for baby Israel! We received many calls and emails with information about doctors and hospitals that may be able to help. Your response has been a tremendous encouragement to Israel’s parents. We are still making calls and have not yet found a hospital, but there is …