Six employees at King's County Hospital in Brooklyn have been fired after surveillance revealed a woman who was completely ignored and left to die on the hospital floor. Esmin Green had been waiting in the emergency room for more than 24 hours before she toppled from her chair and fell on ground. Although the waiting room was occupied by other patients, a security guard, and a staff member, no one cared to help Green until more than an hour after her fall.
The surveillance shows the staff member and the security guard noticed Green on the ground at least three times, but they made no attempt to assist her. The security guard didn't even leave his chair. Instead he rolled over to briefly look at Green's body and then rolled back into place.
The AP reports that someone else in the waiting room had to get the attention of another medical staff member before Green received any assistance. By that time, she had already died.
Green was unwillingly admitted in King's County Hospital's psychiatric ward the night before she collapsed. The psychiatric unit received several complaints in the past, and the surveillance of the hospital's negligence is said to have begun new reforms at the center, such as shorter wait time in the emergency room.
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Posted Jul 1st 2008 8:37PM by Ana Kasparian
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1. Let the fun begin and by that I mean let's see how long it takes for the responses to this post to fall along conservative/liberal ideological lines.
Uncle Meat at 9:55PM on Jul 1st 2008
2. Last time around on one of these I think it took 4-5 posts before that happened.
bob at 9:59PM on Jul 1st 2008
3. It just goes to show that some of us always have to be “ON”. I’m a liberal and I can get pretty rough and insulting in expressing my opinions but damn we still have some common ground don’t we? Not everything is a matter of left v right is it?
Uncle Meat at 10:06PM on Jul 1st 2008
4. Total disregard for another human in distress. How can they even justify leaving her there 24 hours before she fell to the floor and died?
This is as criminal an act only performed by people who are supposedly there to care for the injured and ill members of the community. With the video, it should take one showing, then listen to the weaseling of those who were responsible before rendering both criminal penalties and civil penalties.
If she had been young with 44DD's, I'll wager that guard would have been there before her butt hit the chair and the resident on duty running to listen to her heartbeat. This is not typical of the medical profession, but it is the same type of care that resulted in the closing of King Drew Hospital in Los Angeles. In fact, EMT personnel told their frieds to take them anywhere but KDH because going there was a "death sentence."
Despite state funding, personnel replacement, new administration, nothing worked until it was forced to close. KDH was supposed to provide needed healthcare in the predominantly black area of South Central LA, instead turned into a community nightmare. A majority of hardworking staff were driven out by slackers and lax administration, so this tragic event is not without precedent. Maybe the Mayor can stop just sitting in his chair and effect some real change.
Dedmanrisn at 12:53AM on Jul 2nd 2008