Man dies after waiting 22 hours at hospital

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superconnected  (1000+ posts)       Wed Aug-20-08 05:34 PM
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Man dies after waiting 22 hours at hospital
Source: Associated Press

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility's funding.

The state sent a team Tuesday to help Cherry Hospital in Goldsboro draft new procedures to ensure patients receive proper care.

An investigator's report released Monday found that 50-year-old Steven Sabock died in April after he choked on medication and was left sitting in a chair for close to a day at the facility about 50 miles southeast of Raleigh. Surveillance video showed hospital staff watching television and playing cards just a few feet away.

Federal officials have threatened to cut off funding because of Sabock's death and a report that a physician punched a patient after the teen bit the doctor.

Read more: http://www.komonews.com/news/national/27175864.html

bushwentawol  (1000+ posts)       Wed Aug-20-08 05:35 PM
Response to Original message
1. This was in Canada right?

   

Jackpine Radical  (1000+ posts)       Wed Aug-20-08 05:38 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Just what I was thinking. 
 Must be that there socialized medicine. 

The Croquist (420 posts)      Thu Aug-21-08 12:24 PM
Response to Reply #2
44. You are right. It was socialized medicine.
 It was socialized medicine in the US.

May he rest in peace.

Good one Croquist

Cherry Hospital is a 274-bed inpatient psychiatric hospital serving the citizens of 36 eastern North Carolina counties. We are operated by the state of North Carolina, the Department of Health and Human Services.
Our Mission is to provide quality inpatient psychiatric services for the citizens of eastern North Carolina.
Our Philosophy is that, as a human service organization, anything and everything done within the hospital shall be done for the purpose of improving the quality of service to our customers.

http://www.cherryhospital.org/

But the other Dummies ignore him. 





 

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The Croquist (420 posts)      Thu Aug-21-08 12:24 PM
Response to Reply #2
44. You are right. It was socialized medicine.
 It was socialized medicine in the US.

May he rest in peace.

Good one Croquist


But the other Dummies ignore him. 


They ignore him because they are tinking away on his tombstone.  One cannot speak truth to power when one still ranks under 1000 on the post count.