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If it’s written in the record it must be so?
The video was bad enough. Watching someone fall to the floor, convulse, die and not be noticed until 63 minutes later while in a hospital is horrifying. Seeing this today had just about the same effect.
Six hospital employees disciplined in ER death - CNN.com
In addition, the organization said, hospital staff falsified Green’s records to cover up the time she had lain there without assistance.
“Contrary to what was recorded from four different angles by the hospital’s video cameras, the patient’s medical records say that at 6 a.m., she got up and went to the bathroom, and at 6:20 a.m. she was ’sitting quietly in waiting room’ — more than 10 minutes since she last moved and 48 minutes after she fell to the floor.”
So the hospital employees went back and lied on the medical records. I am not sure that anyone should really be surprised. You would think they realized there was video but I know the attitude, she’s just another patient with no insurance so who will bother to watch the video. Don’t think this can’t happen anywhere else. University ER has outrageous wait times and they aren’t checking on the people in the waiting room. I would hope that if a patient hit the floor at University Hospital someone would raise an alarm and something would be done but don’t be too sure. Being uninsured definitely relegates you to second class citizen in the eyes of the medical community and when the choice is food or insurance who chooses insurance.
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In regard to the University Health System EC comment - you must understand that it is a Level I Trauma Center. Patients are brought from all over the county (and beyond) from car accidents, gun shot wounds, stabbings, construction accidents, drownings, etc., etc., etc.
Patients are triaged and assessed upon entry for the severity of their condition. Certainly, a patient with a sore throat is going to wait longer than an acute case like a heart attack. That’s the way it must and should be.
Additionally, those who choose - for whatever reason (lack of insurance, no primary care physician, etc.) - to go to the emergency room for their minor care issues are given the option of going to a fast-track clinic on the property. Sometimes they do this, and sometimes they choose to wait in the emergency room.
With one hopsital having responsibility to care for this unbeliveable load of patients, there is no way they can admit every patient into a bed upon arrival. That’s why they’re pushing for a property tax increase to upgrade and expand the emergency center.
Any taxpayer/property owner in Bexar County (and surrounding areas, for that matter) has a vested interest in this emergency center being larger and in making sure its equipment is state of the art.
If you get in a car accident and are not able to tell the AirLife or other emergency personnel what hopsital you want to be taken to, more than likely you’ll end up at University Hospital.
And, let’s hope you do. They have the most well-trained and efficient staff in the area to deal with major traumas. It’s an amazing staff of nurses, surgeons and other medical team members in the area, and you will receive amazing care. By voting against this tax increase (which raises the taxes of someone with a home valued at $100k by only $19/year) you are saying you’re OK with the existing patient load and situation in that waiting room.
The choice is the taxpayers’. Make a good one.
Hi Jennifer,
I actually wasn’t meaning to sound derogatory about University hospital or their workers. They are overworked and underfunded and I truly believe that is a symptom of the system we are working within. People without insurance are relegated to a second or even third class situation where they have no options and a 24 hour wait is possible and probable. I suppose that wasn’t terribly clear since the quote was about workers changing the records to say they took care of a patient that had died. I was saying that a death in the waiting room can happen at University just as easily as it can happen anywhere else. In Bexar County we have several good programs for the uninsured like CareLink but we are the exception not the rule. If you are uninsured in the United States you can expect less than stellar service and medical care.
Good luck on your tax increase. I have no qualms about voting for better services and when it is on the ballot I am sure one of our writers will choose to highlight it but the city as a whole tends to not tax itself no matter what the tax is for. Maybe if somehow they could get it wrapped into a tourist tax then it would pass.