Originally Posted by Rochard

I saw this on the local news this morning.

If I understand correctly... They brought their child into Sutter Healthcare Hospital (big healthcare network here locally) with flu like symptoms, and the hospital detected medical issues they decided "required immediate care" and demanded the child stay in the hospital until further notice. Sutter said the conditon was "life threatening". Parents took their child out of the hospital without going through the proper procedures, and took the child to Kaiser Hospital. Kaiser told them them the "child was in no danger" and they saw "no reason for the child to be in the hospital".

Sutter hospital insists the child's health and welfare has been threatened and requires medical care, and when the parents took the child from the hospital without checking the kid out the hospital called police - which they are required to do by law.