Simplify the following text for a Grade 12 native English-speaking person.
Original: In one well remembered story , Examiner reporter Winifred Black was admitted into a San Francisco hospital and discovered that indigent women were treated with `` gross cruelty . ''
Simplified: In one story , Examiner reporter Winifred Black went into a San Francisco hospital as a patient and discovered that the women there were treated with `` gross cruelty . ''