Settlement calls for 5-year watch of NYC hospital
Details of the Esmin Green's death went largely unnoticed until security camera footage became public and resulted in public outrage. (May 2008) Credit: AP
A Brooklyn hospital where a patient died in a waiting room will undergo improvements mandated by a consent decree aimed at settling litigation over conditions there.
The settlement announced Friday calls for conditions at the Kings County Hospital Center to continue to be monitored by a federal judge for five years.
A lawsuit had alleged that psychiatric inpatient units were overcrowded and dangerously unsanitary and that patients were routinely ignored and abused.
In June 2008, Esmin Green, 49, languished for nearly 24 hours before collapsing from a blood clot. She had had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Details of the Jamaican immigrant's death went largely unnoticed until security camera footage became public and resulted in public outrage.
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