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A 49-year old woman dies on the floor of a psychiatric emergency room at Brooklyn hospital. Worse yet, surveillance video shows staffers ignoring her for an hour!


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It's a story that makes your stomach turn and your blood boil. The victim, Esmin Green, can be seen falling out of her chair at 5:30am on June 19, then lying down and thrashing around before going still. People nearby, including two security guards, do nothing to help!
In fact, an hour goes by before a fellow patient finally tracks someone down who will help. Now lawyers are suing Kings County Hospital alleging neglect and abuse of mental health patients at the medical facility.

The New York Daily News reports that staff at the hospital might have even faked medical charts belonging to the victim. Her medical chart claims the Jamaica native used the bathroom when she was actually writhing on the floor and the records also have Green sitting quietly in her chair when she was already dead!

Six staffers including the two security guards have been fired...but it would seem a far harsher penalty should be in order for those who turned away. They lost their jobs...this poor woman lost her life!

I am doing a story on this tonight. Check it out at 10 and let me know what you think.
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Chip read my blog view my photos
Jul 1, 2008 | 8:47 PM

Human compassion....has anyone seen the human compassion? I'm sure I left it somewhere around here.....

colleenagnes
Jul 1, 2008 | 9:08 PM

MARK ,and they call this place a Hospital ?????? every employee who saw this poor lady lying on the floor should be charged with neglecting thier duty, that lady should never of been left alone to die on a hospital ? floor...the hospital should be sued by the family, and the hospital closed up !!

fenwaydav read my blog view my photos
Jul 1, 2008 | 9:13 PM

When are these stupid people going to learn, A CAMERA DOESN'T LIE!!! Kings County Hospital has to be one of the hardest places to work. Either find the right people that want to really help or shut the doors....

Graham_Cracker read my blog view my photos
Jul 1, 2008 | 9:39 PM

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I just can't bring myself to be so judgmental.

Maybe - given the fact that this is the psychiatric ward - people laying on the floor for an hour isn't exactly uncommon.

I'd like to hear from some of the hospital workers BEFORE I "tear them a new one."

secion8
Jul 1, 2008 | 10:28 PM

I would like to see the security guards who looked at her fired, The nurses Fired and the hospital sued for an amount that will hurt.

This happened too a person I knew not too long ago. He was checked in the hospital and had an sever asthma attack, While under care of the hospital, Nobody did anything and he died. He was only 25 years old.

I do not see how something like this can happen in a hospital.. People need to wake the BLEEP up and start doing there jobs.. Makes me sick..

Sue the hospital for all you can get and then go after the nurse that tried to hide it.. That is about as bad as trying to hide a homicide.

tharmon77
Jul 1, 2008 | 10:29 PM

This is another reason to sue the hospitals and don't believe a word they say. Seriously, why are we protecting these people by instituting lawsuit limitations? We have to send a message, don't just fire these people, try them for negligent manslaughter.

I live in Massachusetts, and we are forced to buy health insurance, you bet your buttocks that the second that any nurse messes up, I will get my legal revenge.

No mercy, no hostages, no remorse, give them the same respect that they showed this woman.

JuneInMA read my blog view my photos
Jul 1, 2008 | 10:48 PM

They were fired? Well, that solves that. That woman only died, what the hell does everyone want?? They fired those neglectful employees. What's the big deal??

If this sounds sarcastic it's because I'm done having emotions. Waste will get to the sewers slower than this world will.

fenwaydav read my blog view my photos
Jul 1, 2008 | 10:52 PM

Hey Dave long time no see.... You are right about the fact it is not uncommon to see someone lying on the floor. The thing though is the camera saw her falling out of her chair and thrashing around. To me that spells seizure. The least someone could have done was to go and shake her or take her pulse, or kick her.

Concerndcitizen
Jul 1, 2008 | 11:01 PM

OMG I am absolutely appalled by this story!!! Watching this just broke my heart, for staff to look at this poor woman repeatedly and just walk away without at least checking on the patient is unbelievable!! I myself worked for the department of mental health here in Massachusetts as a police officer for four years and I can’t say that things are much better here in mass, which is why I quit. I can’t even count the times that I heard of and or witnessed patient neglect, the worst that I heard of was after I left. A patient that I was close to died because a nurse took it upon themselves to stop giving seizure medication without doctors orders. Unfortunately things like this are entirely all too common within the system and change is not just needed but absolutely necessary!!

tharmon77
Jul 1, 2008 | 11:06 PM

Fenwayday, TECHNICALLY they did take her pulse! When she was dying on the floor, papers show that she was talking, sitting and have a blood pressure of 70/100 and was able to communicate with the nurses.

HAHAHAHAHA, never believe anything on paper, look with your eyes! Don't just fire these people, have them incarcerated. I am pretty sure their new lover/cell mate will help them understand about caring for someone and while they scream, the guards will show them the same anamosity they did to this woman.

Next time anyone reading this goes into a hospital, show NO RESPECT. Don't care how long they have spent in school or how hard they "work", make a stink, argue, and demand LOUDLY the service you need.

The old addage of "squeeky wheel gets the grease" holds true. Get yours while you can, you might end up like this poor woman.

ravenfox read my blog view my photos
Jul 1, 2008 | 11:22 PM

How come the hospital doesn't have a nurse stationed in the E.R.?

fenwaydav read my blog view my photos
Jul 2, 2008 | 12:16 AM

I'll say it one more time...Kings County Hospital is where you go when you are very very mentally ill. It handles all five boroughs of NYC and then some. Everything from drug overdoses to suicide. If you think the cream of the crop hospitals are under staff, well it's nothing compared to this place. People sit in there waiting room and lobby just to sleep it off sometimes. I said above it takes a very special person to work there. Maybe they need to shut the doors because they just can't handle it. Then where Kings County Hospital once stood would be people lying on the floor. Sometimes dying and people stepping over them. You want to see a mini version of this, go to Boston Medical Emergency room.

Chip read my blog view my photos
Jul 2, 2008 | 5:26 AM

Huh....common for people to be lying on the floor of a psychiatric EMERGENCY room...I don't think so.

Whazt part of the word EMERGENCY don't you understand.

Jenn_1973 read my blog
Jul 2, 2008 | 6:07 AM

This is not just terribly sad it is an injustice and is the worst form of neglect! Why is is that our mentally ill people are so often abused and neglected?! I would like to see all involved FIRED! I believe there should be higher standards for those seeking employment in these places. One would think at the very least they should have to check on somone who fell out of their chair! Oh I don't know.... a person on the floor policy oops she slumped out of her chair go check on them not allow them to writhe on the floor dying don't check on that one..... whats the matter her health insurance tell them no coverage? sad, sick injustice! All involved should be fired and never allowed to work in any form of health care again! sorry If I have to have a liscence to cut someones hair. People should have to have liscences to be gaurds or staffers in a mental hospital! There obviously needs to be some form of standards here. maybe post a list stating it is acceptable for a patient to sleep in a chair. It is not acceptable to have one writhing on the floor for over an hour and then falsley say she was in the bathroom when in fact she was dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Melky6
Jul 2, 2008 | 9:00 AM

someone should have checked on the lady especially if she was seen thrashing like she had a seizure. The only thing that could possibly excuse this is the women was well known there and time and time again she did these antics for attention like the little boy crying wolf.

graysox
Jul 2, 2008 | 11:25 AM

Mark I think this is sick. The way that security guard watch that woman lay there on the floor and did nothing. How would he like it if that was done to him. and The medical staff that did nothing they should be more than fired they should be charged with criminal neglent charges should be filed with the DA office. It makes you wonder Mark is this the first this has happen. What really gets me Mark is I don't care if if is a mental hospital or mental ward no one deserve to be treated like that and hospitals in this country need to add new safe guards and proceedures to prevent this from ever taking place again. Mark I know ther are heath care workers out there who throw ther hands up when they see things like that take place it has to stop becaue in the course of our live we have to go to a hospital whether its for ouselves or a love one and we must demand better care and the hospitals need to better train people instead of just putting them in a uniform it should not take a person to lose there life for this to happen. And Secuity guards should be better trained and be made to have some kind of medical training until back up comes and take over. And sueing the hosptial is not going to bring that women back the problem is still there and no amount of money can replace a life but new safeguards in our hospitals can

laryan
Jul 2, 2008 | 9:15 PM

This is a sick situation. You go to a hospital for help, and they ignore you.

my husband is a native of Brooklyn and he's telling me this hospital has been a problem and has had serious issues for years!!! to him it was "just another day @ Kings County Hospital"..

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