but first at 11:00 death in a hospital
waiting room how could it happen and and
are patients in need of Immediate Care
being
ignored and good evening to you I'm Liz
Joo and I'm Bill Ritter the disturbing
video emerging tonight and it is Raising
some serious questions about the care
given at one particular New York City
Hospital I news reporter Lucy Yang is
here now with much more on the story
Lucy well Liz and Bill she was a
49-year-old woman in desperate need of
medical care and she was exactly where
she should have been in in a psych unit
except surveillance tape which we are
about to show you leaves critics
accusing Kings County Hospital of
neglecting this patient to the point of
her
death the first thing you see is the
woman falling off her chair and Landing
face down on the floor of the
psychiatric emergency Ward inside Kings
County Hospital what happens next or
rather what doesn't happen is now the
center of a massive lawsuit against the
hospital those familiar with the case
say the 49-year-old woman Di eyes right
in front of the surveillance camera as
the medical staff walk by her and ignore
her apparently not one angel of Mercy
concerned that she is convulsing on the
floor almost an hour later when workers
finally do respond it is too late for
the Brooklyn woman the scene played out
on June 19th of this year the patient
had been admitted to the psych ward for
agitation and psychosis just the day
before and was here waiting for a bed
when she died all alone on the floor it
has been 11 days now and the medical
examiner has yet to determine a cause of
death but whatever claimed her life even
City officials admit no one tended to
her for an hour more than a year ago
Advocates lodged a lawsuit against this
public Hospital claiming the cord is
like a page out of a horror movie where
patients who can't fight for themselves
are neglected abused and kept in
unsanitary conditions then came the
death this month underscoring those very
allegations in the graphic of ways it
cost one woman her life but there are
indications the hospital is ready to
make some changes the City's health and
Hospital Corporation tonight promising
these reforms additional Staffing
expanded Crisis Prevention training and
that patients in the psychiatric
emergency unit are checked every 15
minutes now a news conference is
scheduled for this case tomorrow the
lawsuit claims workers initially tried
to cover up claiming the patient did
receive care except you don't see it on
the tape so far at least half a dozen
workers at Kings County have been fired
or suspended you can view this
disturbing video again at our website
7online.com bill that's just horrifying
and at least there's video here this
point substantially all right Lucy thank
you thank you