http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/01/waiting.room.death/index.html NEW YORK (CNN) -- A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.
Surveillance video shows a woman lying on the hospital floor for almost an hour before anyone helped her.
Esmin Green was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric emergency department of Kings County Hospital Center on June 18 for what the hospital describes as "agitation and psychosis."
Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment, said the civil liberties union, which was among the groups filing suit against the facility last year seeking improved conditions for patients.
The surveillance camera video shows the woman rolling off a waiting room chair, landing face-down on the floor and convulsing. Her collapse came at 5:32 a.m. June 19, the NYCLU said, and she stopped moving at 6:07 a.m. During that time, the organization said, workers at the hospital ignored her.
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Hospital patient dies in waiting room due to policy violations
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http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/philadelphia-hospital-patient-dies-waiting-room-due-policy-violations/2010-01-22#ixzz0hjWIPhBTA new report concludes that a patient died in the waiting room of a Pennsylvania hospital, unnoticed for more than 40 minutes after he died, because the hospital committed numerous violations of State Department of Health policy.
On Nov. 28, 2009, Joaquin Rivera entered the waiting room of the emergency department of Aria Health's Frankford campus. Rivera, 63, entered the ED at 10:45 p.m. complaining of pain on his left side. According to the state report prepared as a result of investigating the incident, surveillance footage showed Rivera stopped moving at 10:56 p.m.
Seven minutes after that, a hospital staffer called Rivera's name and noticed him staring at a wall, she told investigators for the state. Despite this, no hospital personnel checked further to see if Rivera needed medical help. In fact, hospital staffers didn't become aware of Rivera's condition until another patient told them what was going on--and by that point, Rivera's corpse had been robbed of his watch by vagrants, the state concluded.
The report concludes that the triage nurse appeared at the patient waiting room door entrance, but didn't enter between 10:45 p.m. and 11:47 p.m. to check on patient activity.
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Woman neglected medical treatment; dies in hospital ER (Los Angeles)
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Woman_neglected_medical_treatment;_dies_in_hospital_ERThursday, June 14, 2007
A woman died in the emergency room of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital allegedly as a result of neglect on the part of the emergency room staff.
Edith Rodriguez, 43, died on the floor of the Martin Luther King-Harbor Hospital after numerous pleas for help. ER staff are reported to have ignored her complaints and she subsequently died as a result of her illness. The official cause of death was a perforated bowel.
It has been suggested that this isn't the first time that a death has resulted from apparent neglect at MLK-Harbor Hospital. In March of 2003, Oluchi Oliver, 20, died in that same emergency room, relatives complain that he, too, was neglected. The 20-year old died 10 hours after complaining of abdominal pains.
"She was lying in a fetal position crying on the floor and no one would help her," her lawyer is reported to have said. "The security guards were on notice that she was laying there. The police were on notice that she was laying there. The hospital staff was on notice she was laying there."
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These are just the tip of the iceberg. I didn't even bother to list all of the stories about accidental overdoses administered by medical staff, incorrect surgeries performed due to chart mixups or just incompetence, and so on. There are thousands of these stories... and they happen right here in the good ol' USA with our wonderful healthcare system.
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