Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen speaks during a press conference announcing Thursday morning civil litigation his office is filing against three Santa Clara County-run hospitals over findings that they have been improperly disposing medical waste, high-grade medical narcotics, and unredacted patient records, on Dec. 5, 2024, in San Jose, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)
“The county must stop illegally dumping human blood and human flesh. This is not a polite bureaucratic request from one county agency to another. This is the law, and we are enforcing it.”
— Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, announcing plans last week to sue three county-run hospitals over alleged improper disposal of medical waste including human flesh, high-grade narcotics and patient records. The county hospital system said it is “implementing corrective actions to address the concerns.”
Originally published at Bay Area News Group