PREVIOUSLY: Attorney General Sues St. Joseph Hospital for Denying a Woman Emergency Abortion Care

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Earlier this week, after being sued by the State of California for refusing emergency abortion care to a woman whose water had broken months prematurely, executives with the Catholic health care system Providence reached out to her in an effort to apologize, according to a statement forwarded to the Outpost by Providence’s national public relations office.

On Tuesday, one day after the state’s suit was filed here in Humboldt County Superior Court, Providence Northern California Service Area Chief Executive Garry Olney sent the following message to all Providence employees in the Northern California Service Area:

As you have likely heard, yesterday we learned that the California attorney general filed a lawsuit alleging that we denied emergency care to a pregnant patient in Humboldt County earlier this year.

We are heartbroken over the experience this patient had while in our care and reached out to her today in an effort to express our profound apologies.

This was a tragic situation that did not meet our high standards for safe, quality, compassionate care. We are immediately re-visiting our training, education and escalation processes in emergency medical situations to ensure that this does not happen again and to ensure that our care teams have the training and support they need to deliver the best possible care for each patient we serve.

As devasted [sic] as we are, we can’t begin to imagine what the patient and her family have been through. We will learn from this and renew our commitment to ensuring that the care and experience we deliver are aligned with our high standards, every time and in every care setting.

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Below is video of California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s Monday press conference with Eureka chiropractor Anna Nusslock, the woman who was allegedly denied the emergency abortion care. Nusslock tells her story in her own words starting shortly after the 13-minute mark: