The family of Kira Dixon Johnson alleges in a lawsuit that racist practices at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center led to her bleeding out after giving birth.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is facing a civil rights lawsuit accusing the hospital of racism over how it handled the care of a Black mother who died there in 2016., 39 at the time, went to Cedars-Sinai in April 2016 to deliver her second son by cesarean section, but died days later after hemorrhaging blood, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles Superior Court by her husband, Charles Johnson.
The lawsuit comes just as a separate wrongful death lawsuit over Kira’s death is slated to go to trial on May 11 in Los Angeles Superior Court. In 2017, Johnson filed a lawsuit for wrongful death and emotional distress against Cedars-Sinai and the doctor who attended to his wife during her hospital stay.
But the scan was never performed, according to the lawsuits. By the time Kira was sent in for surgery, doctors found three liters of blood in her abdomen, and she soon died from hemorrhagic shock due to the blood loss, the lawsuits say. Chris Dolan, an attorney representing Johnson and his two sons, pointed to previous depositions taken from Cedars-Sinai employees who said people of color are treated differently than white people. Those depositions are key to the civil rights lawsuit filed this week.
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