Hospital video shows no one helped dying woman
NY- Video captures a woman dying, unaided, on the floor of the psych ward at Kings County Hospital. The true shock is that many people were present, and none assisted Esmin Green. They even went so far as to falsify medical charts to cover up their lack of aid.
A federal suit filed last year in Brooklyn alleged neglect and abuse of mental patients at the hospital.
Two different security guards spotted Green, a native of the island of Jamaica, prone on the floor and did nothing, the tape shows. They have been fired, along with four other staffers. She had been sitting about 3feet from an observation window. Two other patients were in the room.
Green is lying facedown on the floor, her legs splayed, when a security guard strolls by at 5:53 a.m., looks at her for about 20 seconds and then walks away.
She is writhing on the floor, thrashing her legs, about 6 a.m., when her medical chart contends she was "awake, up and about, went to the bathroom."
Green rolls on her back at 6:04a.m. She stops moving at 6:08 a.m., but two minutes later a security guard pushed his chair into camera view. He never leaves his chair.
2 Comments:
Its your average American Hell Hole Hospital. I bet JACHO passed them with an A +. Wake up America,
JACHO is a joke ! Let the industry self inspect (JACHO) !
LOTS OF PEOPLE DIE IN OUR HOSPITALS EVERYDAY THANKS TO GREED;
THIS LADY DID IT ON TAPE. HA HA NOW AMERICA GETS TO SEE WHAT GOES ON. I am a RN with 13 years in, trust me; this happens daily.
Why did she wait soooo long? It sounds to me that they overlooked the fact that she was there at all!! She was sitting directly under the observation window. If the person behind the glass was seated in a chair at the same level as the woman, she would have been out of thier line of sight both in the chair and on the floor.. THIS IS NO EXCUSE!!You would expect the person in the observation room to move and get a clear view of the WHOLE room - corner to corner - every few minutes. As for the medical records that say she "went to the bathroom" at 6:00 when she was clearly on the floor--whoever wrote it got her confused with the other woman in tan who DID leave the room at 6:00 (maybe to the bathroom)and was seated in the corner directly opposite of the window in full view. It is tragic and I'm not sure that anybody should sit in a waiting room for that long to begin with! This was a flurry of unforgivable mistakes, oversights, negligence, and inadequate policies on behalf of the facility and on behalf of the individuals who bore witness !
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