Physician assistant offered job at Texas Children’s Hospital, was told there was a hiring freeze after relocating

HOUSTON – A woman is suing Texas Children’s Hospital for $400,000 after she claims she accepted a job offer and moved her family from California only to be told she’s no longer being hired.

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Mojgan Pedram is a physician assistant who had a stable job working in a California emergency room. She took the job at Texas Children’s because she’s passionate about children.

“Everything was already set, and I already relocated. I moved here and I was planning to, like, financially start to be stable again, but all of it in a second was ruined,” she said.

She says she was hired in April and in late May, she went to the hospital to finish a health screening. Pedram says she got a call from the hospital, and they told her they were putting the job on hold. Naturally, she was shocked.

“I asked them, for how long have you been aware of this, and you didn’t tell me?” Pedram said. “And they said, ‘well, it has been going on for two months’ and then I was like, ‘I was offered the job in two months, so you were already aware. Why didn’t you even tell me or inform me?’”

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She says the past two weeks have been difficult for her family.

“So just the moving was like roughly around, I can easily say, just the moving part. It was $20,000 to $30,000,” Pedram said. “But then I’m just not even mentioning, not even just counting the breach in the lease, all the expenses about flying, you know, everything like that, and then also having to find a place over here right in a short amount of time.”

Her attorney, Jacob Scholl says other people were affected by a hiring freeze.

“The takeaway is that Texas Children’s Hospital, in all of their bureaucracy, leaves their employees by the wayside,” he said. “They don’t seem to care about the decisions that they make and how they affect not just the individual employees, but the community and their family members as well.”

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Pedram is suing the hospital and wants to hear their explanation.

KPRC 2 has reached out to Texas Children’s on Monday and last Friday. They have still not responded to our questions about Pedram’s case, as of this writing.