ER Death

I do not know if you guys have heard about the ER death yet. In May a women had been waiting in a Los Angeles hospital waiting room for 24 hours when she collapsed and died with no help. Two security guards, a doctor and a nurse all looked at her on the floor before anyone helped the woman. She layed on the floor for close to an hours because the nurse came to the waiting area with the crash cart... it was a little late for that. Other patients in the waiting room even made 911 calls because the hospital employees were not helping, but when they called 911 no one would do anything because they were already in a hospital. That makes the story even worse. The sad thing is the whole thing was on video tape. Currently 6 hospital employees are being disciple for their actions. You can watch the video from the lobby and a recording of the 911 calls at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19207050/ or http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/02/waiting.room.death/. Luckily from this event federal regulators said Friday that they are pulling $200 million in funding from a troubled hospital that serves one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods, forcing it to all but shut down. It is scary to know this can happen, I always thought of hospitals to be very safe and life saving places. It may be something to think about.

Jenna