Elderly woman dies of coronavirus minutes after being discharged from NYC hospital

[LKJ86]

Elderly woman dies of coronavirus minutes after being discharged from NYC hospital
By Tina Moore and Ruth Weissmann March 29, 2020 | 12:34am
Source:https://nypost.com/2020/03/29/elder...minutes-after-being-discharged-from-hospital/

A 71-year-old Queens woman who had been diagnosed with coronavirus died just minutes after being discharged from the hospital, police sources told The Post.

Carolyn Frazier was released from New York Presbyterian Queens Hospital Friday at about 10 a.m., despite doctors diagnosing her with the COVID-19 virus, the sources said.

A private ambulance took Frazier back to her home on Parsons Blvd. in Flushing—but she had passed away by the time it arrived.

The woman was pronounced dead at 10:14 a.m., less than half an hour after she’d left the medical center, sources said.

 

[Morpheus]

Why was she discharged? No bed space or the test result came after she had already left the hospital?

 

[UKBengali]

This is the result of a private medical system.

One of the richest countries in the world with some of the best healthcare resources seems to be looking at ability to pay rather than medical need.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Why was she discharged? No bed space or the test result came after she had already left the hospital?

"A private ambulance took Frazier back to her home on Parsons Blvd. in Flushing"

Ambulances usually take people to the hospital. Never heard of one going the other way.

 

[dbc]

This is the result of a private medical system.

One of the richest countries in the world with some of the best healthcare resources seems to be looking at ability to pay rather than medical need.

She was terminal, nothing the hospital can do - NHS will send such patients home to die as well and use the bed for someone they can actually save. OP and idiots like him don't understand the concept of triage the Chinese did the very same thing in Wuhan.

 

[American Pakistani]

This is the result of a private medical system.

One of the richest countries in the world with some of the best healthcare resources seems to be looking at ability to pay rather than medical need.

The United States have severe Healthcare pay crises. So much monopoly in Healthcare by insurance companies and their lobbies. Sad that such a to country with health infrastructure second to none is held back by insurance companies and their lobbies.

 

[dbc]

The United States have severe Healthcare pay crises. So much monopoly in Healthcare by insurance companies and their lobbies. Sad that such a to country with health infrastructure second to none is held back by insurance companies and their lobbies.

No hospital anywhere in the world is going to waste resources on a terminal patient during a pandemic.

 

[UKBengali]

She was terminal, nothing the hospital can do - NHS will send such patients home to die as well and use the bed for someone they can actually save. OP and idiots like him don't understand the concept of triage the Chinese did the very same thing in Wuhan.

No they will not.
As long as there were resources available then they would have tried to save her.
It would be different if there were two patients and only one bed left.

There is no information on whether she was sent home because there was no bed or simple as she had no health insurance/money.

 

[dbc]

No they will not.
As long as there were resources available then they would have tried to save her.
It would be different if there were two patients and only one bed left.

There is no information on whether she was sent home because there was no bed or simple as she had no health insurance/money.

Hospitals cannot turn away a critically ill patient regardless of their ability to pay - IT IS ILLEGAL.
Terminally patients on the other hand in most cases prefer to live out their last few days/hours/minutes in familiar surroundings - it is joint decision between the doctor and patient.

IT IS ILLEGAL in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.



Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA)


In 1986, Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) to ensure public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay. Section 1867 of the Social Security Act imposes specific obligations on Medicare-participating hospitals that offer emergency services to provide a medical screening examination (MSE) when a request is made for examination or treatment for an emergency medical condition (EMC), including active labor, regardless of an individual's ability to pay. Hospitals are then required to provide stabilizing treatment for patients with EMCs. If a hospital is unable to stabilize a patient within its capability, or if the patient requests, an appropriate transfer should be implemented.

https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EMTALA


The percentage of people dying in hospital fell by 11% over the same period, from 57.9% in 2004 to 46.9% in 2016, according to PHE’s latest end-of-life care profiles.

PHE said the trend showed that more people were choosing to die at home, in the company of relatives and friends.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...inally-ill-dying-at-home-drop-hospital-deaths
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[Hack-Hook]

No hospital anywhere in the world is going to waste resources on a terminal patient during a pandemic.

wrong.
here we specially hospitalize severe cases

the difference is we tend not to prolong CPR , if a patient come back fast good , but we won't prolong the CPR as experience shown prolonged CPR on these patients only increase the risk of the stuff getting infected but wont bring back the patient.

Hospitals cannot turn away a critically ill patient regardless of their ability to pay - IT IS ILLEGAL.
Terminally patients on the other hand in most cases prefer to live out their last few days/hours/minutes in familiar surroundings - it is joint decision between the doctor and patient.

IT IS ILLEGAL in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

as I said your problem is not lack of equipment but mismanaging it.
I bet you still do elective procedure in your hospitals and that's the core of the problem

in the Hospital I work , we stopped all elective procedure more than 1 month ago . we converted 2nd Urology ward , Neurology ward and Neurosurgery ward for Caring of Covid-19 patient . divided 1st urology ward to 3 part and moved the remining patient of Urology , Neurosurgery and Neurology to 1st urology ward there and only accept emergent ituation in those wards . we also used Internal medicine Ward 1&2 only for Covid-19 patient .
we divided our urgence ward to two part one for Covid-19 patient (Urgence 1&2) and one for the rest of the patients (Fast Track) and we try to dischargepatient as fast as possible from that ward . two month ago if we kept a patient as long as 6-8 hours , today the same patient will remin 2-3 hours in the hospitals and we do that by skipping the step in dignosing and treating the patient that we think are not necessary and do some step together insted of doing them step by step

 

[riscol]

The patient died within minutes after being discharged. Now what is wrong with the US healthcare system? She was terminal ill and about to die so why not let her die a bit more humane and comfortably on a bed rather than letting a dying person to drop dead on the street?
She might live close by the hospital but others who are not would just be dying on some street or on their way home. This is unheard of in Europe.

 

[Arsalan]

@LKJ86 sir if you have any other threads to share on COVID-19 please do that in the relevant section:

COVID-19

 

[Yaseen1]

i think medical staff had injected poison in her for killing old woman as she was regarded as burden on economy being evident from their motive to depopulate world

 

[CIA Mole]

I thought curve was flattening?