Man Dies After 8 Hours in ER Waiting Room
JON VERRIER WAS ONLY THERE FOR A RASH
By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff
newser.com
( This man had Republicancare. Now, if he'd had Obamacare..)
Posted Jan 27, 2014 11:50 AM CST
(NEWSER) – Jon Verrier came into the emergency room at Saint Barnabas Hospital complaining of a rash. Eight hours later he was found "stiff, blue, and cold" in a waiting room chair, having died unnoticed several hours earlier, an emergency room worker told ABC 7. The 30-year-old arrived at the Bronx hospital at 10pm, and the hospital says his name was called three times between then and 2am. Security footage shows he was alive as late as 3:45am. Finally, at 6:40am, a security guard noticed that Verrier was dead.
Saint Barnabas has concluded that "all hospital guidelines were met," a spokesperson says. But the employee has a more harsh assessment: "He died because not enough staff," he said. "For me, it feels like a cover-up." Indeed, Verrier's family didn't know the circumstances of his death until after ABC 7's report aired, the New York Daily News reports. "You're just a number no matter where you go," his brother lamented. "That's how they treated him, like a number." The New York Post adds that Saint Barnabas' emergency room has an average turnaround time of 307 minutes, more than twice the national average. |
