BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Two Kings County Hospital employees are facing charges after a patient was left unattended on the floor of the emergency room for almost an hour before she died. During that time, nursing aide Easton Royal allegedly wrote on the observation sheet that the patient was doing fine.
Royal was arrested on March 15 and charged with reckless endangerment and falsifying business records, New York Daily News reports. Another nurse, identified only as Gonzalo in a previous report by the city’s Department of Investigation, pled guilty to similar charges last month.
Esmin Green, 49, waited nearly 24 hours in the psychiatric waiting room before dying of blood clots. Hospital surveillance footage shows her collapsing in the waiting room and lying on the floor for 57 minutes.
Royal and Gonzalo are the only employees facing criminal charges for Green’s death.
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