Deplorable Conditions at Kings County Hospital Center
July 8, 2008 Abuse, Fraud, Hospital, Human rights, News, Psychiatry 2 CommentsLast month, Esman Green, a 49-year-old Jamaican woman and patient at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital Center (KCHC) was allowed writhe on the floor of its psychiatric emergency ward for a full hour before a nurse realized Green was in distress; by then, Green had died. This medical malpractice occurred while that unit’s attending psychiatrist and two security guards were in the vicinity. Based on surveillance footage obtained by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), Green appeared to be ignored and unattended while hospital workers and other patients in the same room, did nothing. Green had been in the KCHC psychiatric ward waiting area for over 24 hours.