Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital did not allow the partner and children of a fatal aneurysm sufferer to visit the victim while she lay dying, despite the partner holding proper medical power of attorney.
Neither the Dade County medical examiner’s office (Dr. Bruce A. Hyma, Director, Chief Medical Examiner, 1 Bob Hope Road, Miami, FL 33136, Phone: 305-545-2400) nor the State of Florida allowed the partner to receive a death certificate, so that life insurance and survivor’s benefits could be made available to the partner and their children.
Here’s an advertisement for Jackson Memorial Hospital:
Here are the phone numbers for Jackson Memorial Hospital:
Jackson Memorial Hospital Main Line
305-585-1111
Jackson Memorial Hospital Administration
305-585-6086
Jackson Memorial Hospital Customer Service
305-585-5300
Jackson Memorial Hospital Human Resources
786-466-8333
Jackson Memorial Hospital Patient Relations
305-585-7341
Jackson Memorial Hospital Public Relations/Media
305-585-7213
Why don’t you give these fine folks a call and ask why they wouldn’t allow the morally and legally correct thing to be done?
Could it be that the victim and the spouse are both women, and the hospital informed the spouse (and the children) that “they were in an anti-gay city and state” and that the power of attorney would not be recognized?
Remind me why anyone would want to live in that pesthole.
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