Black detectives in the New York City Police Department's Intelligence Division filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging racial discrimination in NYPD hiring and promotion practices.
A psychiatric technician was indicted Monday for reckless endangerment and falsifying hospital records, including those of a patient who died unattended on an emergency room floor, according to District Attorney Charles J. Hynes.
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Blood clots from a long period of inactivity killed a woman who died last month on a waiting room floor at a New York hospital, the state's medical examiner said Friday.
The family of a woman who died in a waiting room says it will sue the hospital. CNN's Mary Snow reports.
Esmin Green died in a drab hospital gown, facedown on a waiting room floor, apparently ignored by hospital staff for more than an hour.
To people around the world who have seen the video, Esmin Green is a symbol of a health-care system that seems to have failed horribly.
Six hospital employees have been fired or suspended after ignoring for more than an hour a woman who collapsed and died in a New York emergency room waiting area.
Authorities investigate why a patient at a Brooklyn hospital lay nearly an hour before getting medical attention.
A 49-year-old woman collapsed and died on the floor of a waiting room at a Brooklyn psychiatric hospital and lay there for more than an hour as employees ignored her, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.
Jeremiah Gutman, a Manhattan civil rights lawyer who testified recently in the Martha Stewart case, has died after an apparent heart attack.
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