TRENTON, N.J. – A Jersey City hospital has been fined more
than $20,000 for violating state procedures after the remains of a
stillborn baby were mistakenly thrown out with its trash several
weeks ago.
Christ Hospital was notified of the penalty in a Jan. 20 letter
from the state Department of Health and Senior Services.
State officials said the body of Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. was put
in the hospital’s morgue after he was stillborn Dec. 21. It was
discarded sometime between then and Jan. 2, when a funeral home
employee came to pick up the body.
Investigators found the hospital didn’t keep a morgue log book
and that officials waited two days to report the missing remains.