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HOSPITAL MALPRACTICE SETTLEMENT
City agrees to pay $2M for wrongful
death in Brooklyn psychiatric emergency room nightmare
May 28, 2009 – The family of a 49-year-old Brooklyn woman who died last year, unnoticed, on the floor of the psychiatric emergency room at Kings County Hospital Center, reached a $2 million settlement in the wrongful death case that shocked the city last year.
The victim, Esmin Green, 49, waited in the emergency room of the city-run Kings County Hospital Center for more than 24 hours last June until she fell to the floor, where a video showed she laid for another hour before hospital workers noticed her.
Ms. Green, a Jamaican immigrant with six children, worked to support them at a child’s day care center before losing her job. Suffering from depression, she sought help at Kings County Hospital Center – the only mental health provider for poor people in Brooklyn. The medical examiner said her death was caused by blood clots that moved from her legs to her lungs.
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