Man dies after waiting 22 hours at hospital — Geez.
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.
from the Hospital website:
On August 1, 1880, the first patient was admitted to the then named “Asylum for Colored Insane”. Since that time, there have been several name changes including: The Eastern North Carolina Insane Asylum, Eastern Hospital, and State Hospital at Goldsboro. The name was changed to Cherry Hospital in 1959 in honor of Governor Gregg Cherry.
Surveillance video showed hospital staff watching television and playing cards just a few feet away.
Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
Some facts about this story.
1) The yearly operating budget is $64M.
2) The federal money they are in danger of losing is $12M — all from medicare/medicaid.
3) The hospital is state funded.
4) The hospital is a mental hospital.
5) His mental status is questionable (he wasn’t a mental patient). I could only find one reference to this and it was in another blog so I am not 100% certain on this aspect. However, he was transferred there because he didn’t have insurance. State law requires the hospital to treat uninsured patients. If he was not a mental patient, I am curious as to why this man was transferred to a mental institution if he wasn’t a mental patient, regardless of insurance status.
6) This is not the first time this hospital has been in hot water.
They are demanding a corrective action !!! People sat there right beside the guy and no one is being charged with manslaughter? He choked on a pill, and no one is suggesting the Nurse should retain her license?
And wing nuts claim the Canadian Health Care industry is broken.
#2 – “3) The hospital is state funded.”
All you need to know. These people probably couldn’t get a job at the DMV, so they got sent here.
Ya, what we need is MORE government health care. Sure.
And remember people: Social healthcare systems like in Canada, Europe and even fucking Cuba are pure evil and the US way is the best.
Keep on living the dream. Just don’t choke on anything.
#6,
for what you PAY in the USA…you should be getting miracles.. you should be PERFECT after you leave the hospitals.
For the ROOM charges, in a USA hospital you would be considered a KING in Canada, or Mexico..
In the 1970’s doctors strike in Los Angeles, death rates in hospitals dropped considerably.
He died because no one cared.
According to #2, he was sent to this Hospital because he didn’t have insurance. Somehow that doesn’t make sense. If he requires treatment then the original Hospital is obligated by law to provide it. Otherwise they can release him. If he still required care they had to provide it.
#5, peehead,
#3 People in Canada have to wait waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer than 22 hours, not to mention that you forgot the fact that the hospital is state funded, like in Canada.
Maybe you could reference ONE case where a patient waited for 22 hours in a Canadian hospital. Just ONE. That is all I’m asking you to do.
BTW, in Canada, they are not “state” funded. But what do you know. You’re just some effen idiot troll who likes to spout shit.
Okay so the man died, but hey Canadian hospitals suck! Yeah those euro trash too, their health care sucks, I hear they pay their doctors in prada shoes, yeah, and in Russia, uhm well.
11,
Do you have links to stories about people dying in hospitals while staff stood by? I don’t think so.
I have insurance, but I pity the poor bastards in this country with none.
11, 12,
Can you show us a link to a story where someone died in a Canadian (or French, or German, or Dutch, or SAwiss, or Swedish, or Norwegian, or Icelandic…) hospital while staff ignored them?
I have lived on both sides of the Atlantic, and those that criticise social medicine without ever experiencing it are full of it. If you go by vital medical statistics, American medicine sucks, sadly. I am very lucky that I have both my health and insurance to back it up. But my heart goes out to those in this country without coverage.
#10, He died because no one cared.
And that’s the sad part.
According to #2, he was sent to this Hospital because he didn’t have insurance. Somehow that doesn’t make sense. If he requires treatment then the original Hospital is obligated by law to provide it. Otherwise they can release him. If he still required care they had to provide it.
Which baffled me as well. I can’t find anymore information on this. It seems that he was taken to this hospital after stabilization (they obeyed the law) and then transferred to the state-run hospital for long term care. Why Cherry Hospital chose not to treat him is beyond me. I guess you get what you pay for.
They need to slow down on passing this health care bill. No one should have to suffer without adequate health care. They should take their time and get this right. Stop looking for political gain and help the public for a change. It shouldn’t be this difficult.