Staff ignores dying patient at Cherry Hospital
posted: August 19, 2008 | category: mental health
tags: mental health "reform"
Reading about the death of Steven Sabock, a patient at Cherry Hospital, a state-funded psychiatric hospital in Goldsboro, N.C., leaves me nauseated, disgusted, outraged and heartbroken:
“…The hospital’s security video recorded Sabock’s care from April 28, when he choked on his medicine while a nurse stood by without helping him, and through his day without food until his death from a heart problem. Health care technicians, according to the report, are seen on the recording watching television through the night, playing cards, and talking on a cell phone while they were in the room with Sabock.
Technicians could not get Sabock to walk back to his bed after his time sitting, so they stood him up, pushed a chair under him and slid Sabock down the hall toward his bedroom. The video showed a cart of emergency equipment being pushed down the hall about five minutes later…”
This is just an excerpt of an article. There is more. And it is horrific, inhumane, and inexcusable.
Our mental health system is beyond broken. I see it at the local level. There is ample evidence at the state level, as well. There are just no words to express the shock and sorrow and ANGER that I feel. When is somebody going to DO SOMETHING?
» “Report: Nurses ignored mental patient as he died,” News & Record
» “Nurses ignored patient as he died,” News & Observer (with related content)
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