Story highlights Jahi McMath's uncle says the family still hopes to move her to another facility 
 
 Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network says it's trying to help move Jahi 
 
 Oakland hospital where Jahi now lies calls the McMath family claims untrue 
 
 She'll be kept on machines through 5 p.m. January 7, under a court order 
 
 The family of Terri Schiavo has joined the battle over Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old girl on a ventilator who has been declared dead by doctors. 
 
 "Together with our team of experts, Terri's Network believes Jahi's case is representative of a very deep problem within the U.S. healthcare system -- particularly those issues surrounding the deaths of patients within the confines of hospital corporations, which have a vested financial interest in discontinuing life," the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network said in a prepared statement. 
 
 The organization said it has been overseeing the efforts of several groups to help get Jahi transferred out of Children's Hospital Oakland and brought "to a safe place." 
 
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 Jahi's family said Tuesday it had found a facility in New York willing to take her. The Oakland hospital "refused to agree to allow us to proceed in that matter," Jahi's uncle Omari Sealey said. 
 
 The hospital denied the accusation. 
 
 "We have done everything to assist the family of Jahi McMath in their quest to take the deceased body of their daughter to another medical facility," hospital spokesman Sam Singer said. 
 
 "To date, they have been unwilling or unable to provide a physician to perform the procedures necessary, transportation, or a facility that would accept a dead person on a ventilator. Our hearts and thoughts go out to them in this tragic situation, but the statements being made by their attorney and some family members are misleading and untrue." 
 
 Family attorney Christopher Dolan had accused the hospital of being "hell bent" on ending Jahi's life. 
 
 A judge has declared Jahi brain dead as well. Doctors say there's no chance she will come back to life. 
 
 Omari Sealey, Jahi's uncle, said Wednesday that the family still hopes to move her to another facility. 
 
 He accused the hospital of starving his niece by not using a feeding tube to provide her with nutrients. 
 
 Singer said a judge Tuesday had dismissed the family's request for additional medical procedures, including a feeding tube. 
 
 A deadline loomed Monday as a judge had said the hospital could disconnect the machines after 5 p.m. (8 p.m. ET). But shortly before Jahi could have been cut off, that same judge extended his order to 5 p.m. (8 p.m. ET) on January 7. 
 
 Terri Schiavo died in 2005, nearly two weeks after doctors removed the feeding tube that had sustained her for more than a decade. She was severely brain damaged and became a national focal point in the right-to-die battle. 
 
 Her husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo, said she wouldn't have wanted to live in her condition, which Florida courts deemed a "persistent vegetative state." Her parents fought to have her kept alive. 
 
 "Persistent vegetative state," however, means the brain still has some activity, even though the patient is in a deep state of unconsciousness. Another word for this is "coma," according to the National Institutes of Health. 
 
 Schiavo's parents, brother and sister created the Life & Hope Network. 
 
 The statement Wednesday about Jahi included a quote from Bobby Schindler, Terri Schiavo's brother and executive director of the organization. 
 
 "Families and individuals must make themselves aware of what so-called 'brain death' is and what it is not," he said. 
 
 "Every person needs to understand that medical accidents happen every day. Families and individuals must be more aware of the issue of accountability and patient rights." 
 
 Last month, Jahi had surgery to remove her tonsils, adenoids and extra sinus tissue. Doctors had recommended the surgery to treat pediatric obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that made her stop breathing in her sleep and caused other medical problems. 
 
 Before the surgery, Jahi said she was worried that she would never wake up, according to her uncle. She seemed fine after the surgery and asked for a Popsicle because her throat hurt. 
 
 It wasn't long before something went terribly wrong. In the intensive care unit, the girl began bleeding profusely -- an image that her mother told CNN would be forever seared in her mind. 
 
 According to family members, Jahi went into cardiac arrest. Days later, she was declared brain dead. 
 
 Hospital officials have said privacy laws prevent them from discussing details of the case. 

 OAKLAND -- The family of Jahi McMath spent the first day of the New Year continuing to desperately search for a doctor who would be willing to perform two surgeries that would allow the brain-dead teen to be transferred to a care facility in New York. 
 
 Jahi, who needs feeding and breathing tubes to be taken to New Beginnings Community Center in Medford, N.Y., has been on a ventilator at Children's Hospital Oakland since mid-December following serious complications from a tonsil surgery and two other procedures to remove throat and nasal tissue. 
 
 Jahi McMath, 13, is brain dead after complications post surgery. (Courtesy of the McMath Family) (Omari Sealey) 
 
 If Jahi can get to New Beginnings, the facility director said she would be cared for around the clock by licensed nursing staff and licensed respiratory therapists. The facility would also hire a pediatrician who would accept Jahi as his patient. An air ambulance company has stated that it would be willing to fly Jahi from Oakland to Long Island for roughly $31,910. 
 
 However, hospital spokesman Sam Singer said Wednesday that three separate courts have denied requests by Chris Dolan, the McMath family lawyer, to have someone implement the tracheotomy line to help Jahi breathe and a gastric tube to provide nutrition. 
 
 But Dolan said the courts have only said they would not order the hospital to perform the surgeries and that despite claims the family's efforts are in vain, there is still time for Jahi. 
 
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 "This is no trick; this is life and death," Dolan said in a statement Wednesday. "Justice is no hoax, and constitutional rights are not a game." 
 
 The family has pleaded on Facebook and Twitter for help to find a physician willing to perform both surgeries for Jahi, but so far no one has stepped forward. Doctors at Children's Hospital have refused to perform either procedure, saying it is unethical to operate on a dead body. 
 
 Wednesday has remained fairly quiet for Jahi and her family, according to hospital spokeswoman Melinda Krigel, who said there have been no updates in the teen's case. 
 
 This is a far cry from Tuesday, when the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network said publicly for the first time that it has been helping Jahi's family for weeks to find a place to transfer her. 
 
 The news came the same day as an announcement from the California Department of Public Health, stating it would be opening an investigation into the hospital's handling of the teen after her surgeries and the ensuing complications that left her brain-dead. 
 
 Check back for updates. 
 
 Nailah Winkfield, mother of Jahi McMath,13, who has been declared brain dead after a routine tonsillectomy, talks to media with her husband Martin Winkfield, in front of Children's Hospital in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group) 
 
 Staff writer Matthias Gafni contributed to this story. Follow Katie Nelson at Twitter.com/katienelson210.
– The family of Jahi McMath, the California 13-year-old declared brain dead after tonsil surgery, is still desperately trying to find a doctor willing to operate on the daughter hospital officials refer to as a corpse. The McMath family has reached out on social media and elsewhere in their quest to find somebody who can perform surgeries that need to be carried out before the teen can be moved to New Beginnings, a New York brain-injury treatment center dedicated to Terri Schiavo, reports the Oakland Tribune. The facility says its nurses are willing to care for the teen, and says it would hire a pediatrician who would do the same; an air ambulance company has agreed to fly Jahi there for about $31,910. Jahi is currently in Children's Hospital Oakland, and her family has accused staff of starving her by not using a feeding tube, CNN reports. The family's lawyer says the hospital is "hellbent" on ending the girl's life. "This is no trick; this is life and death," the lawyer said in a statement yesterday. "Justice is no hoax, and constitutional rights are not a game." The hospital, which says three courts have turned down the family's request to have breathing and feeding tubes implanted, denies that it is preventing the girl's release, saying it has done all it could to help the family in "their quest to take the deceased body of their daughter to another medical facility." In terms of the feeding and breathing tubes, it maintains that it is not ethical to operate on a dead body.