Patient Dies on ER Floor – Is This How We Are Caring for Our Patients?
July 3, 2008 by Becky Ramsey
Filed under Business
Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn, a hospital that’s Web page claims is “staunchly committed to patient-centered care”, left a woman who had collapsed on the floor unattended for over an hour. She died on the floor before anyone assisted her.
According to the video below, she had been waiting in the ER for over 24 hours before she collapsed. This is not the first time that this particular hospital has failed to properly treat its patients, and according to a number of sources, this incident is just one in a long line of sad cases that will become more and more common as the U.S. health system continues on the path that it is on.
I heard about this one. I also talked last weekend with an ER doctor, who said that this is very unusual. He says they have procedures in most hospitals to prevent someone “slipping through the cracks.” I hope so!