Board Set To Discipline License of Repeat
Offender Doctor
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., May 2, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The Osteopathic Medical Board of California (OMBC) and the Attorney General's
office filed an accusation of charges of gross negligence, and
repeated negligent acts against Bakersfield OB/GYN Hans Chunghan Yu
D.O. this week. Consumer Watchdog's work with families who lost
loved ones to maternal negligence in Bakersfield spurred multiple families to come
forward and report deaths and longterm harm due to negligent care
by Dr. Yu. The Osteopathic Medical Board is pursuing charges for
the harm done to three of those families.
Consumer Watchdog worked directly with one of the mothers,
Susanna Talamantes, to write her
daughter's death complaint. Susanna's daughter Laylianna died the
same day that she had a regular office visit with Dr. Yu.
Laylianna's death complaint is one of the three complaints that is
responsible for the accusation brought against Dr. Yu's
license.
According to Susanna, her pregnancy was high risk because of her
history of very high blood pressure. At an office visit just before
her due date, Dr. Yu advised Susanna to not take her blood pressure
medication before her next office visit so he could rush her in to
an emergency c-section. Susanna followed the doctor's advice and
appeared for her next office visit two weeks later without having
taken blood pressure medication. Dr. Yu was aware her blood
pressure was very high but told Susanna to meet him at the hospital
later that day. Had Dr. Yu called an ambulance and sent Susanna to
the hospital right away, her baby girl would have survived.
You can read more about Susanna's daughter Laylianna's
story here.
"Dr. Yu knew that I was a high risk patient yet he chose to put my
baby and I at risk. I trusted Dr. Yu. He told me I'm not
supposed to tell you this but don't take your blood pressure
medicine before your next office visit. Your blood pressure will be
elevated and I can rush you in for an emergency c-section," stated
Susanna Talamantes. "I followed
his advice but he didn't send me directly to the hospital. He sent
me home. My baby Laylianna died and I will never be the
same."
You can find Dr. Yu's enforcement
accusation here.
Consumer Watchdog worked directly with the family of another of Dr.
Yu's patients, Tracy Dominguez and
Xavier De Leon, to write their death
complaints on behalf of Demi
Dominguez and her baby Malakhi De Leon. The Osteopathic
Medical Board investigated Demi's complaint and found that her
death was determined to be a simple departure from the standard of
care which meant no discipline for Dr. Yu. Meanwhile, baby
Malakhi's death complaint was left with no review for three years
and was closed.
"Receiving the news that Demi's death complaint was closed with no
discipline felt like I had lost my daughter all over again," stated
Tracy Dominguez. "I felt
defeated but also motivated to continue to advocate in my community
along with Consumer Watchdog."
Dr. Hans Yu of Yu Medical Group
previously worked with the former doctor Arthur Park who surrendered his license to
practice medicine in 2021 after a 25 year history of harming
mothers and babies in Bakersfield.
Eight families came forward with their stories of death and
longterm harm to mothers and babies under the care of Dr. Yu. The
Osteooathic Medical Board chose to pursue charges on behalf of
three of those families.
"This was a three year effort to work with families to encourage
them to come forward, file death and lifelong harm complaints, and
continue to work with us to try to move these complaints through a
complicated enforcement process," stated Michele Monserratt-Ramos, Kathy Olsen Patient
Advocate at Consumer Watchdog. "This action taken by the Attorney
General's Office and the Osteopathic Medical Board was fueled by a
people powered campaign for justice,"
Consumer Watchdog's volunteer team of advocates have had to take
extraordinary actions to move the Osteopathic Medical Board to take
disciplinary action against this physician's license. Dr. Yu's
accusation is only the fourth example of an accusation/charges that
the Osteopathic Medical Board of California has filed since January 2024.
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