[net-gold] MEDICAL: MALPRACTICE : UNITED STATES: CITIES: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: Aria Defends Handling of ER Death
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MEDICAL: MALPRACTICE :
UNITED STATES: CITIES: PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA:
Aria Defends Handling of ER Death
Aria Defends Handling of ER Death
By Tom Avril
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Posted on Tue, Feb. 2, 2010
Philadelphia Inquirer
<http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/
20100202_Aria_defends_handling_of_ER_Death.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yagq4gx>
A senior executive from Aria Health, the owner of the Northeast
Philadelphia hospital in Frankford where Joaquin Rivera died as he waited
for emergency treatment, said today that staff did not follow a facility
policy to check on patients periodically in the waiting room.
<snip>
Rivera, 63, complained of pain in his left side when he walked into the
waiting room at Aria Health's Frankford campus - formerly called Frankford
Hospital.
Wilson said an examination of a security video showed he died 11 minutes
after arrival, and was first called by a triage nurse after 14 minutes.
She said the state average for this wait time was 17 minutes.
Thomas R. Kline, a lawyer representing the Rivera family, criticized
Wilson for citing that statistic. Someone with possible heart trouble, as
Rivera had, should be seen right away, he said.
Posted on Wed, Feb. 3, 2010
Executive: Hospital ignored policy in Rivera death
By Tom Avril
Inquirer Staff Writer
Philadelphia Inquirer
<http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/83420792.html>
A senior executive from Aria Health, owner of the Northeast Philadelphia
hospital where Joaquin Rivera died in November as he waited for emergency
treatment, said yesterday that staff did not follow company policy
requiring periodic checks on patients in the waiting room.
Chief operating officer Linde Finsrud Wilson, testifying at a City Council
hearing on Rivera's death, said the hospital had since trained staff to
keep better tabs on waiting patients. She said it also had added a second
full-time security guard in the 25-seat waiting room, where Rivera's watch
was stolen after he died.
The three-hour hearing in Council chambers was the first public forum
devoted to the events of Nov. 28, when Rivera, 63, walked into the waiting
room at Aria's Frankford campus, formerly called Frankford Hospital. It
included testimony from an attorney for the family and a senior official
from the state Department of Health, who elaborated on state findings -
announced last month - that Aria had failed to deliver adequate care.
"There were policies and procedures that, if they had been followed,
might've given us a different outcome," said Stacy Mitchell, the
department's deputy secretary for quality assurance.
Karen Heller: His treatment was a crime
By Karen Heller
Inquirer Columnist
Philadelphia Inquirer
<http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/karen_heller/
20100203_Karen_Heller__His_treatment_was_a_crime.html>
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<http://tinyurl.com/yljnvuc>
What everyone remembers about Joaquin Rivera's death is the wristwatch,
that three drug-addled miscreants stole it two days after Thanksgiving
while he lay slumped in the Aria Health-Frankford Campus emergency room
waiting for treatment.
But the true crime had already occurred. Rivera, 63, died 11 minutes after
entering the ER despite two visits to the registration desk and complaints
of left-side pain, which should have resulted in immediate care.
Instead, the Olney High guidance counselor, musician, and community
activist was left dead, ignored for nearly 50 minutes. It was a bystander,
not medical personnel or security, who noticed his condition and alerted
authorities.
Rivera might as well have been on the street.
"We're using this as a teaching moment," said Councilwoman Maria
Quines-Schez yesterday at a Council hearing on the incident. "Nothing we
do here will bring Joaquin Rivera back." She called him "an incredible
human being who is one of the reasons why I'm sitting on City Council."
A state Department of Health report found the facility negligent or
deficient in meeting multiple emergency room protocols. No penalties were
imposed.
"Let's take the worst thing possible that has happened to the best man and
not only hold the hospital publicly accountable but let others know that
everyone is watching," said Thomas R. Kline, the Rivera family attorney,
who testified before City Council.
Aria officials were tone-deaf and patronizing in talking of the community,
consistently pointing out, as chief operating officer Linde Finsrud Wilson
did, "our recognized exemplary service to this historically underserved
population" - as if its care was a charitable act, a gift to the less
fortunate, rather than Aria's legal obligation as an urban nonprofit
hospital.
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