County of Santa Clara Leads Coalition Challenging Trump Administration Rule Under Which Patients Could Be Unlawfully Denied Medical Care

New regulation would invite health care workers to deny care to vulnerable patients based on the workers’ religious beliefs, including in emergencies

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. — The County of Santa Clara (the County) today filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California challenging a recently released Trump administration regulation that would permit individual hospital employees to deny care to patients whose healthcare needs or choices do not align with the employees’ own religious or moral convictions.