Sutter Health agreed in 2013 to house the Ibrahim El-Hefni Liver Biorepository through its California Pacific Medical Center, with that facility’s foundation agreeing to spend and raise $9.5 million to do so, the lawsuit says.
Along with alleging that Sutter failed to contribute those funds, the lawsuit also claims that the health system is blocking a proposed repository move to the University of California San Francisco.
“In a perverse mindset, not only do Sutter Health/CPMC no longer want the repository, but more egregious, they want no one else to have it either,”’ according to the lawsuit.
“We are at a loss as to why Sutter Health/CPMC appear to be giving up on the biorepository,” added Pierce O’Donnell, the attorney representing the Ibrahim El-Hefni Technical Training Foundation.
Sutter Health did not respond to a request for comment at the time of publication.
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