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Another Psychiatric Patient Dies in a Hospital Due to Staff Neglect

Posted on August 20, 2008

Six weeks ago, we reported on how Kings County Hospital let a patient die while staffers stood and watched. The patient had psychiatric concerns. We have no idea what happened to the humanity of those staffers (who are hopefully long since gone from the hospital and are having trouble finding gainful employment at a new hospital). We also thought such tragedies would be a wakeup call to all hospitals to re-evaluate their procedures and ensure patient care and monitoring is a top priority. Sadly, I guess the news didn t make it down to North Carolina: A mental patient died after workers at a ...

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