A NC man died after waiting 22 hours in a hospital
 

Unthinkable!:mad:

I had a heat stroke while playing in a golf tourney and was rushed to the hospital.

In the ER for 1 1/2 hour with the only person who came in was to get my insurance info and finally said the heck with this!

Got up to leave and they said I couldn't! Like hell, signed myself out and went home!


My mistake was trying to play the next day!:rolleyes:

Are you sure it wasn't heat exhaustion? It's hard to get up and walk away from a heat stroke. :rolleyes:

an hr and a half? dude....unless you were shot you aren't going to get seen right away.....


waitwait waaaaaaaaaaaiit...and that same day a doc punched a disabled TEEN??????


dayum

Did any of y'all actually read the article...this guy wasn't WAITING in the ER. He was WAITING all day in a hospital bed. In fact, I don't really know why they used the term waiting...it's more like "NC Man Neglected for 22 Hours in Mental Hospital".

Actually...if you want to get technical:

A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours.


Chair....


and regardless of where they were, similar to the case in NYC, no patient should have gone that long without medical personnel checking in on them....so despite your semantics, chair bed, stool or floor, THAT is the main idea of the story.....you get a B for getting the 2nd part of your post right.

"An investigator's report released Monday found that 50-year-old Steven Sabock died in April after he at one point choked on medication and had been left sitting in a chair for close to a day at the facility about 50 miles southeast of Raleigh. Surveillance video showed hospital staff watching television and playing cards just a few feet away...

....It was not clear from the report exactly how Sabock died. The report states that he was in a hospital bed and later found unresponsive...

...The investigation released Monday said Sabock died in April after Cherry Hospital nurses left him unattended in a chair and did not feed him or help him to the bathroom."

So was he sitting or was he in the bed? While there is absolute evidence of a nursing shortage in this country, this is the worst story I have ever read.

Was the patient acutely ill or a danger to himself? Either way, do the nurses/CNAs do bed checks? What about meals - I know that if I ever miss a meal, when I am in the hospital the nurses log it. Patients are under the care - a ward of - the hospital.

When taking meds, nurses usually bring water make you take it in front of them, to make sure that you ARE taking them. I imagine if he was a mental patient, they would make him open his mouth to make sure he took it, right?

This is most disturbing. I have spent many months of my life in hospitals over my lifetime, with stays from overight in the ER to several weeks at a time. I have never gone longer than 2-3 hours without someone popping in and checking on me/my vitals. In fact, I get cranky when they wake me up to take vitals.

Anyway, the fact that other staff members - over FOUR SHIFTS - didn't take notice of him is appalling. The ward should be closed or re-staffed immediately, with proper oversight from the appropriate commissions.

22hrs

No food

No vitals

No bathroom checks

No notification of next of kin probably.....

yupper...sounds like this problem and the one in Brooklyn needs to start being closely monitored

MY question is....if this happened in APRIL...why is this JUST NOW IN AUGUST being reported nationally?

Slow news day?

The big delay is weird, but here's why it's being brought up again: the hospital will get its funding cut on Sept 1 unless they file a report with the Medicare/Medicaid people by Aug 23.

you would think if this was such a big deal, they would have had this done already....thanks for that info.

ETA: and on a somewhat related issue:

D.C. Police Failed To Notify Family of Relative in Hospital

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...081802406.html