Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
#1Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 1:36pm
Edith Isabel Rodriguez died in a LA hosptital ER after being ignored by hospital staff. Apparently she was lying of the floor vomiting blood. Her boyfriend, and a bystander at the hospital, called 911 but they were told it was not an emegency. When police showed up, instead of getting her medical treatment, they arrested her for a parole violation.
Woman dies in ER lobby.
#2re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 1:47pmCompletely inexcusable. She's vomiting blood, and They’re watching her there and they’re not doing anything.
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#2re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 1:48pm
DISGUSTING!
I was in the ER here in NYC last weekend and there was an elderly lady screaming that she was in agony and needed some pain medication.
She was completely ignored for about 2 hours and when she was finally spoken to a nurse loudly yelled at her saying, "Shut UP..you are so annoying!" The rest of the ER nurses just laughed ot loud at the elderly patient who was all alone.
NICE.
(I am writing a letter of complaint to their Board of Directors about the incident.)
#3re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 1:54pmgross. If I saw a woman vomiting blood I wouldn't touch her either.
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#4re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 1:54pm
that's really horrible
something similar happened at the children's hospital near me a few years ago...
they sent a kid home from the e.r. who had sickle cell after his doctor told the e.r. to admit him and he died the next morning. my dad was the attending emt for the 911 call when the kid died.
it was all over the news and the parents have a lawsuit against the emergency department.
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#5re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 1:59pmSure it's shocking-- but is it as shocking as Raul losing to DHP at the Tonys? I was vomiting blood when that happened.
#6re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:00pmand that's why I didn't touch joek, remember?
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#7re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:04pmThat is appauling! Anyone who saw those people who were sick and ignored them/yelled at should be fired!
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#8re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:06pmI suspect there is a whole lot more to this story than we are getting. No one vomits blood in a hospital and gets ignored. It sounds a bit sensationalistic to me.
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#9re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:09pmHaving worked for a short time in an urban hospital, I don't find it THAT hard to believe.
#10re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:32pm
My mom is a nurse was venting the other day that a lot of the doctors and nurses she works with our despicable people who think that they as people, are better then a lot of those they serve.
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Updated On: 6/13/07 at 02:32 PM
#11re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:39pmI'm not making a judgement call on the staff at the hospital. The one I worked out was underfunded, overcrowded, and the staff had to work ridiculous hours. Which led to burn out. There doesn't really seem to be any excuse in this case, but I'm sure the conditions they were working under were not ideal.
#12re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 2:54pm
This is a heartbreaking and anger-provoking story.
But, Taz, the article makes it clear that it seems to be an issue with this particular hospital:
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The incident was the latest high-profile lapse at King-Harbor, formerly known as King/Drew. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is investigating claims of recent patient care breakdowns, including Rodriguez’s case.
Federal inspectors last week said emergency room patients were in “immediate jeopardy” of harm or death, and King-Harbor was given 23 days to shape up or risk losing federal funding.
#13re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:18pm
This particular hospital has been plagued with problems, and has lost its accreditation as a teaching hospital.
There has been a huge scandal over the past few years over funds being wasted and general mismanagement and perhaps fraud at the hospital.
It is funny, the community around the hospital claims that they do not want it shut down, but it clearly has not been serving their needs for years in a viable manner.
There are issues with the cost for retaining support at this hospital far exceeding the costs in other areas. It will not surprise me if it is shut down. They have tried to clean house for years and things just do not get better.
#14re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 3:45pm
It's King/Drew...oh, sorry- they've changed the name of it, it's now King/Harbor...sad to say I am totally not surprised, it's an awful awful hospital and when I lived in L.A. I would actually tell friends of mine that under no circumstances were they to allow me to be sent there- I didn't care if it was the closest place, hell even if I was shot in the King/Drew parking lot or something, no matter what, take me someplace else for treatment. (Apparently local police officers also have an understanding that they're not to ever be taken there either.)
The L.A. Times had a Pulitzer winning piece back in 2004 on how awful that hospital was, looks like even with the name change not much has changed...
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#15re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 5:06pmWhat a horrible way to go. I cannot imagine how infuriated I would be if I was her family.
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#16re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/13/07 at 5:12pm
Welcome to LA.
I just found out, that even though I have FULL medical coverage, insurance is only paying for 350.00 of my $9,756.00 hernia surgery.
What can you do? The entire health care system sucks.
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#17re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/14/07 at 6:19am
Paramedics cannot legally transport an unstable patient from one hospital to another. An unstable patient needs to be taken to the closest hospital that provides that level of care. Since Mrs. Rodriquez was already there, the dispatcher should have alerted the staff that at the physicians' and nurses'of this call.
From reading these reports, it's obvious that there are many problems with this hospital. I wonder what the triage nurse was doing in the midst of the this.
#18re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/14/07 at 12:29pmIt's terrible but not at all shocking. Many hospital's standard practices are ridiculous, this hospital is no exception.
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#19re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/14/07 at 2:15pm
The triage nurse has since retired and I belive the Doctor in charge of the staff has been transfered.
It's a nasty and sad mess.
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#20re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/14/07 at 4:57pm
Anakela, I feel the same way about Harlem Hospital in NYC. I live just across the street and a few blocks down from it, but if I ever need to be taken to a hospital I'd rather risk being taken the 30 blocks north to Columbia than go to Harlem.
My partner went to the ER there because she had an allergic reaction that caused a severe skin rash (thankfully nothing life-threatening, just very uncomfortable). She eventually got a shot of Benedryl and a prescription and was fine, but she said the whole place was just nasty. It seemed dirty, the nurses were rude, and almost every other patient in the ER was obviously on drugs. Since then we've talked to other people in the neighborhood and they've all said they'd never go there, that's where all the crackheads go.
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#21re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/14/07 at 5:02pmI read today that the family is reporting (read: not official report) that she died while being wheeled out of the hospital by police who showed up and decided to arrest her for some outstanding warrant for breaking probation. If that is true than this story is even more messed up than we thought!
#22re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 6/14/07 at 5:13pmThanks avab802- now that I'm living in NYC, it's good to know what hospitals here I should be avoiding too!
#23re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 8/12/07 at 3:13am
Bump...thought some folks here might be interested in this update- on Friday King-Harbor shut down its ER, and within the next two weeks the hospital entire is scheduled to close. It's not specifically a response to the Edith Rodriguez case, rather the hospital failed a recent review and had $200 million in annual federal funding revoked.
King-Harbor fails final check, will close soon
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#24re: Woman dies waiting for treatment at LA hospital.
Posted: 8/12/07 at 3:17am
While on the one hand that's a good thing - danger removed - it doesn't solve the problem of too little available medical treatment.
Who says we need to re-evaluate health-care in this country?!?
Updated On: 8/12/07 at 03:17 AM
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