Nurses “did not mean a hurry” when a man died in the central valley hallway, according to a statement

The family, who died in the Central Valley Hospital Emergency Department, filed an unlawful death lawsuit, claiming that the employees were “careless” to impress his dad on time because he suffered from heart failure.

2023 October 1 Erick Burger, 60, called 911 and reported chest pain and shortness of breath. According to the state investigation report, he began confiscation of the Emergency Department of the Kweah Health Medical Center within minutes of arrival at the KAWEAH Health Medicine Center and took a heart stop. It was declared dead about half an hour later.

The state investigation, a former member of the staff, the action and the paramedic report, suspected of two emergency nurses, the nameless lawsuit, “just sat around and did not express urgency” when the burger was taken to hospital. Paramedics radio radio radio connection to the ambulance staff, which they arrived within 10 minutes and the burger will need to be seen immediately.

A former emergency department publicly speaks of Burger’s death, saying that he was the one who had a complaint to the state, saying that it was his “ethical and moral commitment.”

Nathaniel Leeds, a lawyer representing the Burger family in a lawsuit, stated in a statement: “Our emergency rooms are one of the few places of our society where everyone should expect dignity and be treated equally, regardless of their origin;

According to state data, both of the nurses of the emergency department, who are accused of not responding to the request on time, may licens their licenses.

In his report, The Bee said Kaweah Health that, as politics and respect for patients and their families, it was not publicly mentioned about the expected or resolved litigation. Due to federal patients’ privacy laws (HIPAA), the Hospital said it could not comment specifically about the patient’s KAWEAH HEALTH.

“Two registered nurses on the matter were immediately appointed on administrative leave and no longer recruit the Kaseah Health,” the report said.

What happened to the Koweah Health patient?

2023 October 1 An exile district ambulance chose a burger in his home in the whole. When the paramedics arrived, they found Burger, who was trying to breathe and barely managed to make two or three words sentences, the paramedic statement said.

When paramedics got into the ambulance bay, the condition of the burger deteriorated. He told paramedics that he felt his automatic implanted cardioverer-defibrillator-medicine device, which uses electric charge to restore normal palpitations, “started shooting and dancing.”

When paramedics encouraged him to the emergency department around 5:07 p.m., two nurses, a registered nurse and a mobile intensive care nurse, “just sat down without showing urgency,” the State Investigation Review Ambulance report said.

When the paramedic asked in which room the patient should be taken, both nurses appeared to focus on personal conversation, and “they both smiled and postponed the patient’s care and told me that I had to register the patient first,” based on the patient’s care record in the state study.

According to the state investigation, the paramedic reported to the nurses that the patient’s internal defibrillator fired. “Well, you didn’t say it in your report,” said the Micn nurse, according to a state study.

Thus, the paramedic passed to the nurses and registered a patient who took about three to five minutes on the basis of a state investigation. The second paramedic then said the nurses that the patient was starting to confiscate, but both of the nurses “still have no urgency”, based on the reference to the patient’s care record in the state study.

Burger was declared dead at 17:47

Plaintiffs’ lawyer Leeds said he believed indifferent nursing caused by hospital management trying to do too much with too few nurses. In addition, the burning of nursing has increased, which caused the coronavirus pandemic to be inappropriate, he said. Analysis of the leading misconduct insurance services providers found that the nurses’ claims were made by 2022. Increased by 10.5%compared to 2017.

“What happened to Mr Burger is a major problem: there is not enough money for community hospitals, insufficient education resources to teach nurses and profit related to all the cost of hospital management,” he said.

Hospital employee stated that he was dismissed for talking about death

Kevin Barnes worked as a unit secretary at Kweah Health Emergency Department. When he arrived in 2023. October 1 6 pm to 6 p.m. In the evening shift, he said he knew something turned off.

“The energy in the hospital was different,” he said in an interview. – No one said much.

Part of Barnes was a submission of paramedic reports in patient files. After reading a message about Burger’s death, he said it was “the worst thing I have ever read.”

Barnes said he felt responsible for doing something otherwise no one else was going to see the message.

He prayed what to do with information, he said.

“God told me for as long as I act right, after all, it would be good,” he said.

After the incident, Barnes issued a complaint to the state. The California Department of Public Health examined Burger’s death in 2023. November 11th And found two deficiencies in the policy and procedures of the nursing services and to plan and implement patients’ care.

Barnes also decided to share what he knew about Burger’s death with burger’s children he knew all his life. He said he believed the hospital “lied” to the family.

“If it were my parents, I would like to know the truth,” he said. “I knew it would cost me my job.”

He was later dismissed in 2024. In January, and he believed it was revenge on sharing information and complains of the state. Officially, he was told, he was released by a hipa.

Kweeah Health stated that no employee employment status had been changed due to the information claim.

April The registered nursing Board’s executive has filed two charges against Nurses Shelby Leann Corwin and Jessica Suzanne Casaus, suspected of serious negligence, incompetence and non -professional behavior of their arrival at the emergency department.

Attempts to achieve nurses were unsuccessful.