Posted on 03/12/2010 4:45:43 AM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
LOS ANGELES (CN) - A suicidal woman who had been missing for 9 days was found dead in a hospital gown on the hospital's second-story landing after employees shrugged their shoulders over her disappearance, her children claim in Superior Court. They say the California Hospital Medical Center "repeatedly made contradictory and false assertions regarding the status of their mother, despite knowing that Dee Ann Haas was either dead or critically injured, and nowhere to be found."
Haas was found "lying in a crumpled heap" in a hospital gown on a second-story landing of the California Hospital Medical Center. No one had seen her for 9 days; she had been admitted 11 days earlier after attempting suicide, her children say.
Haas was placed under psychiatric observation and assigned a "sitter," who would stay with her to make sure she did not attempt suicide again. "Haas had a tearful and sad affect, with low self esteem," according to medical records, her children said.
Despite knowing she was bipolar, had a history of severe depression, had stopped taking antidepressants and had tried suicide 48 hours earlier, Dr. Viguen Movsesian "discontinued the 'sitter' and left Haas unattended and unrestrained," the family alleges.
A nurse who saw her get in an elevator allegedly was the last person who saw her alive. Haas's daughter Natalie Wilkinson says she "repeatedly and anxiously made inquiries to Defendants California Hospital Medical Center and Catholic Healthcare West as to both the status and whereabouts of her mother."
The hospital filed a "noncritical" missing persons report with the Los Angeles Police Department, which was changed to critical after Wilkinson told the police that her mother was suicidal. "The police expressed surprise that the hospital's missing persons report was originally noncritical," Wilkinson claims.
After Wilkinson and her brother Ryan Jackson were told conflicting stories about whether their mother could have left the hospital without being seen, Wilkinson insisted on further searches of the hospital grounds because, she claims, at that point the hospital was "done" looking for Haas.
About 4 days later, Haas's body was spotted by hospital security. She was "permitted by defendants" to leave her room, take the elevator, get on the roof through an access door with a broken alarm, scale the restraining wall and fall to her death, her children say.
Haas's three children seek damages for negligence, premises liability and emotional distress.
They are represented by Wendell Hall with Haight Brown & Bonesteel.
And then I see that this story is from Californai. God help us.
Devils in the Details...
Same here.
It was obviously a UK story.
Except that it wasn’t.
Magical Mischief Tour, today will be fomentation against the healthcare system,(?) yesterday it was police officers, what will it be tomorrow?
And what makes you want to stir people into anger, when they already sooo angry at the biggest robbery ever pulled on them in American history through ,’stimlus’ and more stimulus a.k.a ‘jobs bills’, while watching the future for their descendants being robbed and put in debt and then the government taking over and rationing their healthcare??????
I’m not understanding your problem. The Magical Mischief Tour posts news stories.
>”after employees shrugged their shoulders over her disappearance”
In L.A.? Kalifornia? Obviously, they didnt ask in the employees native language.
Repeat after me.....
Donde es la mujer loca?
if only she would of had government healthcare .. this wouldn’t have happened! /s
A preview of Obamacare...................
I wonder why the doctor would "discontinue the sitter"? Was the "sitter" a medical professional? Many questions left unanswered.
As a former healthcare practitioner I see every reason to bring incidents of this nature to the forefront. Accidents do happen in any setting but the article points out pure and simple negligence and malpractice.
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The National Republican Congressional Committee has published a target list on health care. In addition to continuing to contact the five Tennessee Democrat Congressmen, you can go http://www.votervoice.net/link/clickthrough/ext/94697.aspx to contact some of these targets. Much of the talk following Obama’s announcement has focused on how to defeat this second bill through reconciliation, but that is misleading because the first step to defeating Obamacare is not by concentrating on defeating the “fixer” bill but by defeating the Senate bill in the House when it goes to the floor for an up-or-down vote on Thursday, March 18th.
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senator mark begich (202) 224-3004 toll free. (877) 501 - 6275 just became a MAYBE
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But there’s good stories about Obama’s health care and budget, why don’t you report them HUH????????
sheesh. If you don’t like his posts, don’t read them.
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