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Exclusive: Man dies in hospital waiting roomJim Hoffer Eyewitness NewsBRONX (WABC) -- Let's start off by saying that St. Barnabas is a good hospital. The doctors and nurses there save lives every day, but earlier this week, an over-burdened Emergency Room may have failed in its mission to help the sick.A man died at some point during an 8-hour wait for care. Most alarming, he may have been dead for several hours before anyone noticed.The patient, a 30-year-old man walked into St. Barnabas Hospital's Emergency Room Sunday night around 10 p.m. complaining about a rash. His vitals were taken and he was told to sit in the packed waiting room until his name was called. At 6:40 the next morning, he was found by a security guard, dead in a waiting room chair."He was found stiff blue and cold." "He was there for a while," said a hospital worker.Hoffer: How can that be in a major hospital in NYC?ER Worker: "There's no policy in place to check the waiting room to see if people waiting to be seen are still there or still alive."The Emergency Room employee who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation was working that night and says there's one reason the patient died and was dead for several hours just feet from doctors and nurses."I'm saying he died because not enough staff to take care of the number of patients we see each day. We need more staff at St Barnabas hospital," he said.
Mo money, mo staff, mo gubmint, mo, mo, mo!This will only increase once O'TardCare is in full force...
If anybody thinks any hospital system will be getting rid of its Diversity Coordinators to free up money for actual care providers, forget it. If anything, Obamacare probably mandates more of those. The Bitter Half had a pretty cushy $300k no-show job at a hospital in Chicago you know.
