Terry Lyn Odoms.
Posted on 08/05/2021 5:19:43 PM PDT by lightman
Note: this article has been updated to include a response from WellSpan.
A Philadelphia law firm said Thursday it filed a lawsuit on behalf of a 72-year-old man who died after staff apparently lost track of him in the emergency room at WellSpan York Hospital.
Terry Lynn Odoms, who arrived by ambulance and was put in a wheelchair, was a Marine Corps and Vietnam veteran, according to lawyer Matt Casey, who is representing Odoms’ family.
“A decorated veteran who fought for our country was abandoned and left to suffer and die by a health system that knew it wasn’t adequately staffed. No one bothered even to check on him when his name was called but elicited no response,” said Casey, who specializes in personal injury lawsuits. “The conduct here is truly shocking and outrageous, and one is left to wonder whether Mr. Odoms’ station in life — he was neither rich nor powerful — had anything to do with what happened.”
Odoms had been brought to the hospital for symptoms including elevated heart and respiratory rates, according to Casey.
He died on Aug. 16, 2019.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health eventually concluded that Odoms was examined shortly after arriving at the ER.
He then sat in a wheelchair for 70 minutes with no further attention from staff, with video footage showing staffers walking past him several times.
Staff called his name three times but, hearing no response, concluded he had left without receiving treatment. He was eventually found unconscious and pronounced dead, according to the health department, which required WellSpan to carry out a plan of correction.
About two months later, WellSpan was again cited by the health department after the department concluded staff had failed to respond to declining vital signs of patient who died of a slow heartbeat.
WellSpan on Thursday afternoon made this statement:
“Our hearts go out to this patient’s family. This was a tragic situation. WellSpan has conducted a top-to-bottom review of our safety and care protocols, created new care team roles and conducted rigorous trainings with our staff. We also have fully implemented all of the PA Department of Health’s recommendations. While we cannot provide additional comment given this is a pending legal matter, our focus remains on providing safe, timely and high-quality care to every patient, every time.”
PRE-COVID.
The neglect cannot be blamed on overworked staff due to the CCP virus.
Terry Lyn Odoms.
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How did he get to the hospital if he was that sick?
Did he drive himself?
If any other family members knew that this 72 y/o man was sick enough to go to the E-Room, it is incumbent on the family to have sent somebody with him, or at very least, notify the Desk Nurse of this elderly patient now waiting.
Usually when you say the words HEART TROUBLE, you get immediate attention. I know. It worked for me some years ago. I almost felt embarrassed by all the attention.
RIP, brother. I have to wonder where were your family members that night.
“How did he get to the hospital if he was that sick?”
An ambulance dropped him off.
Yes, you absolutely have to have someone with the patient at all times.
Went through it with my Dad.
So it’s even worse.
Except maybe they were overworked with ALL the normal issues, rather than the ghost-towns that hospitals became because of the dreaded COVID (basically anyone not COVID - 2nd-class patient).
Good question.
Can’t believe they couldn’t follow an ambulance within 70 min.
Today it doesn't even remotely resemble the ER in which I worked. Patient numbers were at least four times greater than back then.
The hospital this Marine went to sounds like a regional,rather than major,hospital...my hunch is that people today see the ER as a 24 hour a day walk in clinic...far more so than when I worked there.
The ER in a Hospital is no place for a sick person.
Yup, 24 hour clinic/PCP and EMS is the DPA taxi.
"People", you say? Illegal criminal invaders is what you actually mean. They regard ERs as their walk-in clinics, as they have no family doctors.
Terry Lynn Odoms.
He was one of my thousands of customers, back in the early 2000s, at my 20ac nursery/garden center/landscape contracting business, 20mi south of York.
Terry and I shot at my GC&N’s shooting range, which I built, with my special firearms. He was a good customer and friend.
RIP, Terry...
True story: years ago,when I first started,I was on the night shift. There was a young woman (not a wetback) who lived literally across the street from us who would regularly call 911 at 2 or 3AM to bring her to us for the most minor complaints. It was against city policy to refuse to transport *anyone*,regardless of how minor their complaint was,so the taxpayers wound up paying for that "taxi" ride as well as the hospital bill.
It's not just wetbacks. There are plenty of home grown welfare parasites.
When you leave an elderly woman in the same tee shirt she was admitted in for three days, feed her only once a day or respond to her ringing the buzzer because you are scared she might have the Wuflu (she had pneumonia) you do not belong in the medical system.
Because only family was allowed in and her daughter was out of town working they engaged in outright neglect.
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