What happened to you at Heritage Oaks was not okay.

Heritage Oaks is the psychiatric hospital on Auburn Boulevard in Sacramento, and Dr. Lenton Morrow was one of its psychiatrists until two of his patients said on television what he had done to them. He gave up his license over it rather than fight the Medical Board; the board gave it back to him four years later. Before any of that, a hospital staffer had gone to trial over a teenage patient, and a law firm now says a fresh lawsuit was filed against the hospital last year. If you were a patient there, keep reading, because this is about you.

WatchingWe can confirm the Morrow record and the 2009 trial from the state and the press. The 2025 lawsuit is reported by a law firm and we have not found it on the docket, so we say that plainly. Names now; filings when the record catches up.

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This applies to you no matter what

• It was him, and you weren't one of the two women on television. The Medical Board's case said at least two. Nobody has said only two.
• It was a different doctor, or a tech, or a nurse. The hospital answers for who it hired and what it did when it heard.
• It was a relationship, he said, and you were in the middle of a breakdown. California's Medical Board took his license over exactly that. A patient can't consent to her psychiatrist.
• You were an adult in 2012 and assume the deadline passed a decade ago. It did. Then California reopened it: to the end of 2026 for anything since 2009, and to the end of 2027 where a private hospital covered it up.
• You were a teenager on the adolescent unit. Then the deadline runs to age 40, or five years from the day you understood what it did to you.
• You're a parent, a partner, a friend asking for someone who can't. Reach out anyway.

The Heritage Oaks record: what the state and the press have on file, and when

We didn't write what's below. ProPublica, CBS Sacramento, the state's medical and workers' compensation regulators and the hospital directory did, and we link to every one. Where the only source is a law firm, we say so. We don't add to it.

We checked this on September 11, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from 2025. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in a Heritage Oaks Hospital lawsuit

Start with the company. Morrow answered to the Medical Board, which took his license and later handed it back. A hospital answers for a different thing entirely: what it knew about a doctor on its staff, when, and what it did about it. Heritage Oaks belongs to Universal Health Services, the largest psychiatric chain in the country, whose hospitals draw the same complaint wherever they are, and UHS is the deep defendant.

A doctor or staff member who did it, if that is your story, is a defendant too. Your case doesn't need theirs to finish first.

Your deadline: the California statute of limitations for sexual abuse at a psychiatric hospital

Your situation still qualifies even if

• You never told a soul. He was your doctor and you were the one who'd been in crisis. Who would believe which of you?
• You were medicated and the memory has holes in it.
• You saw that he got his license back and took it as the state's verdict on you. It wasn't. It was a decision about him.
• You were there because of something you did, and you figure that disqualifies you. It doesn't.
• You live somewhere else now. Most people do, by the time they're ready.

Locations covered

Heritage Oaks Hospital, 4250 Auburn Boulevard, Sacramento · the adult units, the adolescent unit, the partial and outpatient programs, and Morrow's outpatient practice if you saw him there. A different UHS hospital in California, Sierra Vista across town, Del Amo in Torrance, Canyon Ridge in Chino? The questions still work. Answer them and say where.

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Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer

I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.

What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.

I'm not a lawyer. I read what you send, I call you once, on your terms, and nothing gets filed unless you say so. Ask sooner than I did.

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