Remember the FL woman who was kicked out of the hospital and died? The video was released [View all]

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and it turns out the police were lying. They didn't promptly get her medical care.

After she collapsed in the parking lot - from a pulmonary embolism -- it was 18 minutes before the police called for help.

So first the hospital made an inexcusable error. They decided to discharge a patient over her objections, without doing standard tests for her symptoms, even though she was panic stricken and insisting she couldn't breathe (even though she was hooked up to oxygen). And then, when they called the police -- because she refused to leave -- disconnected her oxygen, and sent her out with the police, the police compounded the error, by not getting help as soon as she collapsed.

So she lay propped up against the car for 18 minutes, dying.

http://www.sfltimes.com/healthfitness/woman-lay-in-parking-lot-18-minutes-later-died

The recording is roughly 2 1/2-hours long, but only the first half covers what happened at the hospital. The recording begins with the officer arriving at the hospital. He enters Dawson’s hospital room and tries to persuade her to leave. The officer tells Angela Donar, who is Dawson’s aunt and also in the room, “she can walk out peacefully or be arrested.”

Dawson repeatedly replies, “I can’t breathe.” Her tone is panic-stricken.

After refusing to seek health care elsewhere, Dawson is arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing. The oxygen hose is disconnected and the officer walks the 270-pound woman out to the police car, holding her by the arm, nudging her along.

Dawson falls to the ground 1 to 2 feet from the patrol car while the officer reaches for his keys. Dawson cut her feet and knees.

After she collapses, the officer tells Dawson that “falling down and laying down, that’s not going to stop you from going to jail. If I have to get help to get you in this car. You are only making things worse on you.”

For 18 minutes she lay propped against the police cruiser as the officer and nurses made multiple attempts to get her into the car. The nurses also checked her pulse. Not until a doctor came out was she readmitted.

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/01/29/calhoun-liberty-hospital-panel-meets/79528300/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

Task force members brought in to make changes at the Calhoun Liberty Hospital met for the first time Thursday, a month after the death of a woman that prompted its creation.

Mostly an organizational meeting, the nine-person group — hospital administrators, doctors and a pharmacist, community leaders, clergy and university medical program leaders — outlined their main goals.

The panel was convened after 57-year-old Barbara Dawson collapsed in the hospital’s parking lot Dec. 21 and later died after a Blountstown police officer was called to remove her from the premises.

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The most pressing issue the group wants to address is access to health care and heath standards in the two rural counties. The hospital serves as a primary care facility for 23,000 people, which puts stress on the emergency facility’s staff.

In addition, the task force is looking at boosting professional development, updating policies and procedures and improving communication with hospital staff and the community.


THE WRITTEN POLICE REPORT IS HERE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027597094