Arizona family sues hospital, says staff ‘Ubered’ sick son to sidewalk where he died

An Arizona household is calling for alteration and is demanding answers aft a 27-year-old antheral died hours aft helium was wrongfully discharged from a infirmary and dumped connected a sidewalk during a blistery summertime day, according to a wrongful decease lawsuit. 

Seth and Gayle Lachica, the parents of Kaelen Lachica, allege that staffers astatine Abrazo Health Arrowhead enactment their lad successful an Uber and had him dropped disconnected extracurricular a section stateless structure successful Phoenix, contempt his deteriorating condition. 

"What they did is abandonment. I mean, they perfectly killed my son," Seth Lachica told Fox News Digital. 

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The household of Kaelen Lachina filed a wrongful decease suit against an Arizona infirmary alleging helium was discharged contempt his worsening condition, causing his death.  (Family lawyer Richard Lyons with Kelly & Lyons)

Kaelan Lachica suffered from anorexia for astir a decennary but had improved his information successful the twelvemonth proceeding his hospitalization successful August 2025, his begetter said. 

Lachica was hospitalized successful 1 installation earlier being transferred to Abrazo Health Arrowhead aft sustaining a imaginable changeable and losing weight. 

Days anterior to his discharge, his wellness declined to the constituent wherever helium was "delusional" and "immobile," the suit states. On Aug. 13, 2025, Kaelan lashed retired and struck a caregiver and asked to permission the infirmary "against aesculapian advice," the family's attorney, Richard Lyons, told Fox News Digital. 

The suit alleges that Kaelan was enactment successful a wheelchair and into an Uber, which the infirmary paid for, and was taken to a stateless structure successful the downtown Phoenix. He couldn't retrieve his address, Lyons said. 

However, Kaelan's code was connected his aesculapian records and was easy accessible to infirmary unit anterior to his discharge, the ailment states. 

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Kaelen Lachica suffered from anorexia for astir a decade, his parents said.  (Family lawyer Richard Lyons with Kelly & Lyons)

"I mean they virtually got him successful a wheelchair and pushed him extracurricular and discharged him," Lyons said. "And I don't mean medically discharged, I mean they evicted him from the infirmary due to the fact that they did not privation him arsenic a diligent anymore."

Kaelen was spotted collapsed connected a sidewalk by a adjacent constabulary officer, his household said. Temperatures reportedly reached triple digits that day. 

"How successful the satellite are you gonna discharge a antheral who is precise sick and conscionable dump him connected a sidewalk successful the mediate of August?" Lyons said. "If he, you know, whether helium tin marque aesculapian decisions for himself oregon not, radical dice retired present successful the vigor each the time."

The infirmary called Seth Lachica successful the aboriginal greeting hours portion helium was dormant to notify him that his lad was being discharged. After circling the country wherever Kaelan was dropped off, helium recovered exigency responders performing CPR connected his lad successful the street. 

"I told them not to merchandise him. They f------ 'Ubered' him here," Lachica told the officers connected scene. "They 'Ubered' him present this greeting and conscionable f------ dropped him disconnected to die."

Seth Lachica speaks with constabulary aft uncovering his son, Kaelen Lachica, connected a sidewalk hours aft helium was discharged from an Arizona hospital.  (Family lawyer Richard Lyons with Kelly & Lyons)

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Kaelan was taken to different infirmary wherever helium died. The suit alleges that Abrazo unit displayed a conscious disregard for Kaelen’s carnal information and wellbeing.

"One would not expect a bouncer astatine a barroom to dump an incapacitated patron onto a blistery Phoenix sidewalk successful the mediate of August—let unsocial the unit astatine a hospital," the suit states. "Yet that is precisely what the Abrazo unit did to Kaelen. This behaviour goes beyond specified negligence, oregon aesculapian malpractice—their determination to person their precise sick young diligent dumped onto the sidewalk—in Phoenix, successful August--directly caused Kaelen’s death."

Abrazo Health declined to remark connected the suit erstwhile reached by Fox News Digital.