Tragedy at Tenet Hospital Results in Forced Birth
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This story is about as tragic as it gets. It is about a system of procedures that systemically fails a patient. A series of serious errors that are as unimaginable as could happen without actually intending them to happen. It is about a little baby and a young mother.
Tesome Sampson went to Tenet Hospital corporation's St. Mary's Hospital, in West Palm Beach because she was pregnant with and required strict bed rest in order to assure the health of her unborn child. She was told by the physicians of St. Mary's that she would only be there for a short stay and staying there would help to keep her unborn daughter safe until she reached maturity enough to be born.
Tesome Sampson did what every patient does; she placed her faith and trust in the health care providers at St. Mary's. In this case, however, Tesome not only placed herself in the trusted hands of these helath care providers, she also placed the safety of her unborn child in their hands.
For the next (9) days, Tesome was on constant bed rest in St. Mary's hospital. A physician gave orders for administration of a drug called vaginal progesterone. Progesterone is a drug used to assist in preventing pre-term birth. The entry in the record was not clear and instead of progesterone, the hospital pharmacy filled and the nurse administered Prostin. Prostin is used most often to induce abortions in pregnant women.
The health care providers provided an abortion medication for a pregnant woman; the pharmacist filled an abortion medication for a pregnant woman; and the nurse administered an abortion medication to a pregnant woman. All of these people acted without once asking whether the medication was correct or verifying what medication was actually ordered.
Within minutes of the health care providers administering Prostin to Tesome, she began to experience severe abdominal cramping and cried out in agonizing pain. She was told that she needed to have a bowel movement and was moved to the bathroom.
As a result of the gross negligence of these health care providers and an obvious sytemic breakdown within the hospital, this young mother aborted her premature child into the toilet. This young mother was forced to deliver her first child at 24 weeks of age; much too young to survive undamaged.
This young child, Traniya, has suffered permanent and irreversible brain damage, anemia of prematurity, cholestatic jaundice, hydrocephalus of the brain requiring multiple shunts, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, osteopenia of prematurity, hypothyroxinemia of prematurity, seizures, apnea, sepsis, retinopathy of prematurity and necrosis of her bowels. Because of her lack of development she must be fed through a tube which often becomes infected.
Mom, Tesome, stands vigil by the side of young Traniya, who is currently hospitalized and has already incurred several millions of dollars in medical care costs.