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, 49-year-old Esmin Green 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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Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.
