By . Richard Alleyne In Oakland . and Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 23:02 EST, 5 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 05:50 EST, 6 January 2014 . Declared dead: The California court allowed Jahi McMath's parents to remove her from hospital and keep her alive elsewhere only after a coroner issued a death certificate . The body of 13-year-old Jahi McMath left brain dead after a tonsil operation was released to her mother last night. Jahi left Oakland's Children’s Hospital & Research Center about 7.50pm in a critical care ambulance to the home of her mom, Latasha Winkfield. The teenager's uncle said the family was 'ecstatic'. 'I was with her when she left the hospital and the family is very grateful for this day,' Omari Sealey said. 'We are pleased she is away from Children's Hospital which has been trying to pull the plug on my niece since December 12th. 'We fought and we fought to make sure she had a chance at recovery. 'She will now be treated like the precious little girl that she is.' Jahi suffered complications following . a routine operation to remove her tonsils at the Oakland hospital on December 9. Her heart stopped, causing brain damage which the . hospital said left her brain dead with no chance . of survival if a respirator was turned off. Three . doctors and the court agreed she was brain dead and the hospital . applied to turn off her life support machine, with the Alameda County . Coroner issuing a death certificate. However Jahi's family won an injunction preventing the hospital switching off life support . and agreed to a ‘protocol’ with the hospital in which the teenager could . be transferred while on a ventilator. The hospital last night said it wished the family 'closure' over the traumatic affair. 'Our hearts go out to the family as they . grieve for this sad situation and we wish them closure and peace,' they said in a statement. Devastated: Jahi's parents arrive at court Friday. They are fighting to keep their 13-year-old daughter alive after she was declared brain dead following complications in routine tonsil surgery . Willing and able: New Beginnings Community Center founder Allyson Scerri said the outpatient rehabilitation facility has been named as a potential care center for Jahi . The . news comes after the girl's family yesterday said they had ‘everything . in place’ to move Jahi from the hospital to a long term care facility. Christopher Dolan, the lawyer representing Jahi's family, said his clients had medical staff, transport and a . new home for the teenager and were just about to ‘get it all in motion’. While it is not clear where the girl . will be moved to, a New York facility run by a woman whose father suffered . severe brain trauma in 2007 has offered its services. New Beginnings Community Center founder Allyson Scerri said the outpatient rehabilitation facility has been named as a potential care center for Jahi. 'We . are aware of Jahi McMath's dire situation, and we are willing to open . our outpatient facility to provide 24-hour care as an inpatient, . long-term facility for Jahi with the required and appropriate medical . staff that she depends upon,' Scerri said in a letter included in court . documents last week, according to Koco.com. According to the facility's website, Scerri founded the facility after her father, Al Barone, sustained a traumatic brain injury in a motorcycle accident in 2007. Seeing . her father, a man of great strength and independence, inadequately . cared for was an unacceptable frustration for Scerri, the website says. The businesswoman told CNN she believes McMath could get better, with appropriate care. 'Her . brain needs time to heal. It's a new injury,' Scerri said. 'We believe . in life after injury, all of us here at New Beginnings have first-hand . experience because we have a loved one that was in the same situation as . Jahi.' War of words: Children's Hospital Oakland spokesman Sam Singer (right) has accused Christopher Dolan, the lawyer representing Jahi's family (left), of misleading people about Jahi's likely recovery . Oakland's Children's Hospital yesterday insisted the girl could not be be rehabilitated. Spokesman Sam Singer yesterday criticized the family's decision to give Jahi 'nutrients' to maintain her brain at optimum efficiency. 'This is a deceased young woman,' Children's Hospital Oakland spokesman Sam Singer told ABC 7. 'No amount of food, medicine, medical machinery, time or hope is going to bring back her back. 'So . it's really wrong and unethical for Mr. Dolan (the family lawyer) to mislead the family and . the public that there's any amount of hope or any food that could . possibly bring back this deceased young woman.' Jahi's family, led by her mother Nailah and uncle Omari Sealey, . have refused to accept the prognosis and argued there was still a chance . she could recover. ‘We are in motion,’ Mr Dolan told KPIX 5 yesterday. ‘We . have what we need right now. I have everything in place I just need to . get it moving. I have a medical staff, I have the facilities, we have . the transport, we just need to get it all in motion.’ He said that ‘come hell or high water’ Jahi would be moved before the deadline. Jahi's family has raised more than $47,000 on GoFundMe.com to move her. According to the site, more than 1,300 people have donated money in nine days. Hope: Jahi's family are certain that she will one day recover despite the hospital's insistence there is no chance of that happening .
Body of Jahi McMath, 13, released to her mother last night .
She was declared brain dead after tonsil surgery last month but her family has fought to keep her alive .
A New York rehabilitation facility run by .
a woman whose father suffered a serious brain injury in 2007 says it is .
ready to accept Jahi .
The Oakland hospital where the initial operation was performed said it's wrong to insist that Jahi's condition will improve .
Coroner issued death certificate effectively absolving the Oakland hospital of responsibility .
By . Richard Alleyne In Oakland . and Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 23:02 EST, 5 January 2014 . | . UPDATED: . 05:50 EST, 6 January 2014 . Declared dead: The California court allowed Jahi McMath's parents to remove her from hospital and keep her alive elsewhere only after a coroner issued a death certificate . The body of 13-year-old Jahi McMath left brain dead after a tonsil operation was released to her mother last night. Jahi left Oakland's Children’s Hospital & Research Center about 7.50pm in a critical care ambulance to the home of her mom, Latasha Winkfield. The teenager's uncle said the family was 'ecstatic'. 'I was with her when she left the hospital and the family is very grateful for this day,' Omari Sealey said. 'We are pleased she is away from Children's Hospital which has been trying to pull the plug on my niece since December 12th. 'We fought and we fought to make sure she had a chance at recovery. 'She will now be treated like the precious little girl that she is.' Jahi suffered complications following . a routine operation to remove her tonsils at the Oakland hospital on December 9. Her heart stopped, causing brain damage which the . hospital said left her brain dead with no chance . of survival if a respirator was turned off. Three . doctors and the court agreed she was brain dead and the hospital . applied to turn off her life support machine, with the Alameda County . Coroner issuing a death certificate. However Jahi's family won an injunction preventing the hospital switching off life support . and agreed to a ‘protocol’ with the hospital in which the teenager could . be transferred while on a ventilator. The hospital last night said it wished the family 'closure' over the traumatic affair. 'Our hearts go out to the family as they . grieve for this sad situation and we wish them closure and peace,' they said in a statement. Devastated: Jahi's parents arrive at court Friday. They are fighting to keep their 13-year-old daughter alive after she was declared brain dead following complications in routine tonsil surgery . Willing and able: New Beginnings Community Center founder Allyson Scerri said the outpatient rehabilitation facility has been named as a potential care center for Jahi . The . news comes after the girl's family yesterday said they had ‘everything . in place’ to move Jahi from the hospital to a long term care facility. Christopher Dolan, the lawyer representing Jahi's family, said his clients had medical staff, transport and a . new home for the teenager and were just about to ‘get it all in motion’. While it is not clear where the girl . will be moved to, a New York facility run by a woman whose father suffered . severe brain trauma in 2007 has offered its services. New Beginnings Community Center founder Allyson Scerri said the outpatient rehabilitation facility has been named as a potential care center for Jahi. 'We . are aware of Jahi McMath's dire situation, and we are willing to open . our outpatient facility to provide 24-hour care as an inpatient, . long-term facility for Jahi with the required and appropriate medical . staff that she depends upon,' Scerri said in a letter included in court . documents last week, according to Koco.com. According to the facility's website, Scerri founded the facility after her father, Al Barone, sustained a traumatic brain injury in a motorcycle accident in 2007. Seeing . her father, a man of great strength and independence, inadequately . cared for was an unacceptable frustration for Scerri, the website says. The businesswoman told CNN she believes McMath could get better, with appropriate care. 'Her . brain needs time to heal. It's a new injury,' Scerri said. 'We believe . in life after injury, all of us here at New Beginnings have first-hand . experience because we have a loved one that was in the same situation as . Jahi.' War of words: Children's Hospital Oakland spokesman Sam Singer (right) has accused Christopher Dolan, the lawyer representing Jahi's family (left), of misleading people about Jahi's likely recovery . Oakland's Children's Hospital yesterday insisted the girl could not be be rehabilitated. Spokesman Sam Singer yesterday criticized the family's decision to give Jahi 'nutrients' to maintain her brain at optimum efficiency. 'This is a deceased young woman,' Children's Hospital Oakland spokesman Sam Singer told ABC 7. 'No amount of food, medicine, medical machinery, time or hope is going to bring back her back. 'So . it's really wrong and unethical for Mr. Dolan (the family lawyer) to mislead the family and . the public that there's any amount of hope or any food that could . possibly bring back this deceased young woman.' Jahi's family, led by her mother Nailah and uncle Omari Sealey, . have refused to accept the prognosis and argued there was still a chance . she could recover. ‘We are in motion,’ Mr Dolan told KPIX 5 yesterday. ‘We . have what we need right now. I have everything in place I just need to . get it moving. I have a medical staff, I have the facilities, we have . the transport, we just need to get it all in motion.’ He said that ‘come hell or high water’ Jahi would be moved before the deadline. Jahi's family has raised more than $47,000 on GoFundMe.com to move her. According to the site, more than 1,300 people have donated money in nine days. Hope: Jahi's family are certain that she will one day recover despite the hospital's insistence there is no chance of that happening .
keep her alive elsewhere only after a coroner issued a death certificate . The body of 13-year-old Jahi McMath left brain dead after a tonsil operation was released to her mother last ventilator. The hospital last night said it 13-year-old daughter alive after she was declared it is not clear where the girl . will be moved to, a New York facility run by a woman whose father suffered . severe brain trauma in 2007 has sustained a traumatic brain injury in a before the deadline. Jahi's family has raised