Woman Dies After Being Ignored in Hospital Waiting Room

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Several employees of a Brooklyn hospital have been fired or suspended after a psychiatric patient died in the waiting room of the hospital. Staff members ignored the patient for an hour before any type of aid was rendered. Attorneys representing the victim’s family have released a surveillance tape that shows the tragic events that occurred the waiting room.

In the video you can see other people in the waiting room, along with what looks like a uniformed police officer or security guard, and several staff members pay very little attention to the woman for an hour while she tossed and turned and eventually lay motionless on the floor. Finally staff members do make an attempt to wake the woman and ultimately attempt to revive the woman after it is realized that she has no pulse.

Sources said that the woman had been waiting in the room for over 24 hours when the event occurred on June 19. The city Health and Hospital Corporation has since increased hospital staff and says that they will now check psychiatric patients every 15 minutes to ensure that this does not happen again.