49 year old patient dies in Kings County Hospital in NY

I'M SO LIVID! PEOPLE DO NOT EVEN CARE ABOUT ANYONE BUT THEMSEVES ANYMORE AND MOST PEOPLE DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEMSEVES EITHER! THIS REALLY ANGERS ME AND ME POSTING THIS VIDEO IS ONE OF MY WAYS TO FIGHT IT!

(July 1)(New York) A sad death in New York City. Surveillance cameras at a city-run psychiatric hospital emergency room in Brooklyn (Kings Hospital) capture a woman falling from a chair, writhing on the floor and dying. Hospital staff and other patients watch and do nothing for more than an hour. One guard doesn't even leave his chair, rolling it around the corner to stare at the body. The New York Civil Liberties Union sued the facility, Kings County Hospital Center, last year over the way it treats psychiatric patients. ((Donna Lieberman, NY Civil Liberties Union)) "A chamber of filth, decay, indifference and danger and seeks an end to the culture of abuse and neglect where patients are regularly ignored and those that dare advocate for themselves are punished with forcible injections of psychotropic drugs."The city's medical examiner has yet to determine why the woman, 49-year old Esmin green, died on June 20th. She had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours. ((Rob Cohen, Lawyer Suing Hospital)) "There is a culture of indifference to patients that permeates every aspect of KCHC's psychiatric care." The city-run agency that runs the hospital released a statement, saying: "We are shocked and distressed by the situation. It is clear that some of our employees failed to act based on our compassionate standards of care. (The hospital has) directed the suspension and termination of those involved." ---- Alan Aviles, Kings County Hospital Center The surveillance video eventually shows a member of the medical staff attending to Green. But it's too late, she had already died.

A shocking video shows a woman dying on the floor in the psych ward at Kings County Hospital, while people around her, including a security guard, did nothing to help.

After an hour, another mental patient finally got the attention of the indifferent hospital workers, according to the tape, obtained by the Daily News.

Worse still, the surveillance tape suggests hospital staff may have falsified medical charts to cover the utter lack of treatment provided Esmin Green before she died.

"Thank God for the videotape because no one would have believed this could have happened," said Donna Lieberman, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union.

"There's a clear possibility of criminal wrongdoing with regard to recordkeeping, and that has to be investigated."

The city Department of Investigation is part of a sweeping probe that has brought some changes to the ward known as G Building.

A federal suit filed last year in Brooklyn alleged neglect and abuse of mental patients at the hospital. The suit sparked an investigation by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney's civil rights unit before the June 19 death.

Two different security guards spotted Green, a native of the island of Jamaica, prone on the floor and did nothing, the tape shows. They have been fired, along with four other staffers.

Green, 49, taken to the unit for "agitation," keels over out of her chair at 5:32a.m., according to the time stamp on the video. She had been sitting about 3feet from an observation window. Two other patients were in the room.

Green is lying facedown on the floor, her legs splayed, when a security guard strolls by at 5:53 a.m., looks at her for about 20 seconds and then walks away.

She is writhing on the floor, thrashing her legs, about 6 a.m., when her medical chart contends she was "awake, up and about, went to the bathroom."

Green rolls on her back at 6:04a.m. She stops moving at 6:08 a.m., but two minutes later a security guard pushed his chair into camera view.

He never gets out of the chair, but looks at Green and scoots away. A female patient who was in and out of the room finally brings a clinic staffer to check the woman and a crash cart is summoned.

The medical chart claims she was "sitting quietly in [the] waiting room" at 6:20 a.m., although she was already dead. The cause of death is still under investigation.

"We are shocked and distressed by this situation," the Health and Hospitals Corp. said in a statement.

BY JOHN MARZULLI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Monday, June 30th 2008, 11:32 PM

A 49 year old mental patient at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, was left on the floor to die. This video was edited, by whom, I do not know. I do know that a more complete version of this tape, shows a male security guard walking over to the patient, and simply walking away. Moments later, a male Dr. does the same thing. News reports indicate that the Dr. was fired, and the nurses and security guards were suspended.

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[AuntyTala]

what a sick country.

[EASings]

It's NOT the country!  This is an isolated incident! These people in the country are the ones sick!

[Caper5554]

Typical Americans

Dont care about anyone

especially those of color

[EASings]

WOW...that is what you think about the people of the US? hmmm...

[tc123123]

wtf?!(my first thing i tjought seeing this!)!

money will never worth more than the lives of humans! ppl should start being aware of this, and should ralize they should care for others!!! dam ... waiting 24 hours ill!...73 year old in car accident, why wont everyone care !!! dont ppl respect the elders anymore(he hit by a car and bleeding god dammit)?! terible ... just so saddening... dude all 3 were sooo .. Ok you get my point, just wanna beat those ppl who didnt care up!

[EASings]

There are some evil people who don't care in the world! I don't agree with this but with evil good wouldn't exist (Just playing devil's advocate here)! I totally agree with you! This is why I posted this video! I was so angry at this occurring in this world and in the United States!

[TriggerCRamsey]

I've been reading comments.. "What a sick country" and things of that nature.. It's actually those particular members of the human race. This type of crap happens all over the world every damn day, not just here in america. The sick part of it all is that this goes beyond any case of police brutality.. this is a hospital. I work in a hospital and this type of behavior would never go down where I am employed. But this is not just the employees, the patients could have done something as well.

[furubarox]

this video makes me physically sick!

what is wrong with people!?!?!

man no one cares anymore.....

all 3 incidents were absolutly disgusting!

something needs to be done people!

i shal quote miley cyrus tho yall probably hate her or whatever but get over it..theres much worse stuff like this going on.... 'wake up america its our home so lets take care of it'

now im not american...but this song fits for every contry..we need to sort it out!

stand as a human race and sort it out!

[MsCatlover1994]

I'm shocked that people could just leave a sick person alone on the floor to die! Aren't guards, doctors, and nurses hired to help people and make sure they are safe? I don't know what those people were thinking and why that poor lady was in that waiting room for over 24 hours, she should have been seen asap. What is wrong with people, why can't people help others and respect each other?

[sammiedodgers]

how can some people be so cruel? it brings tears to my eyes! poor people, i feel so bad!! :'(

[qpleas]

People in the health care field are bound to a higher code of ethics. It doesn't matter what color the person or patient is. Everyone played a horrible role in her death. Blacks, whites and latinos ride on rims in my city which has nothing to do with nurses, doctors, and security guards not doing their jobs! It's not a race issue its a ethics issue!

[nestygrind]

this is pathetic, only in new york city stupid shit like this happens. Especially since they're colored. I fucking hate this city.

[rockinscarlet]

this why 2012 is going to happen! people turning more bad

[awhatzable]

all those who walked to look and did nothing will die horribly when its their turn

[erocknurse69]

@ PaulDougouba: shut the hell up you dumbass!!! Most of the patients I see are BLACK with MEDICAID whose tire rims on their cars are more expensive than the damn car i drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I PAY for your damn healthcare and I totally agree with SeaCoastGirl: Shove the race card up YOUR racist ass!!!!!!!!!!!

[tjac59]

LQQK FOOLS. This woman was on her last leg. Its so sad that the family law suit an won 2mill. Those niggas have spent that money up. Now we have to pay for it in higher medical cost. these people should had lost that case. She was bound for death

[uberhaxor69]

AMERRRICAAAA THE BEAUTIF-oops i mean Stupid.

[SeaCoastGirl1987]

@PaulDougouba

Excuse me, but EVERYONE no matter what race/color gets health care benifets for rich/poor/average. And children no matter what color get proper education so don't sit there and act like everything's @ fault due to " the whites " EVERYONE is at falt for how our world is. And not just " blacks " get gunned down.. everyone does. Shit happens to everyone..

So you can take that race card shit and shove it up your ass.