Investigation: Pregnant Women Face Risk Despite Federal ER Law

Jamie Larson’s son was born at 24 weeks and five days. She gave birth to him in a hospital parking lot. His birth came less than an hour after nurses at the same California hospital had assured her that her back pain was from a urinary tract infection and sent her home.

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By Brenda Goodman and Andy Miller

This special report, Deprived of Care: When ERs Break the Law, is an investigation by WebMD and Georgia Health News. Here’s a link to Part 1, Lives lost amid ER violations, investigation finds

Jamie Larson had just been wheeled into a room at Sutter Roseville Medical Center in Roseville, California, after the birth of her first child when a nurse popped in to tell her, “It’s a boy!”