| Woman who died on hospital floor is honored in death
Woman who died on hospital floor is honored in death - CNN.com Quote:
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Esmin Green died in a drab hospital gown, facedown on a waiting room floor, apparently ignored by hospital staff for more than an hour.
At her funeral Sunday in a tiny church in Brooklyn, packed with some people she didn't even know, she was dressed in lace gloves and a white chiffon suit.
"I'm so glad you're in my life/I'm so glad you came to save us," four children sang in a hymn at the Jesus is Lord Sanctuary.
The mourners sang along, many still reeling with anger and disbelief at the way their "Sister Green" was apparently treated last month at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.
Surveillance tape, later broadcast around the world, showed the 49-year-old mother of six sliding off of a chair in the waiting room of the hospital's psychiatric emergency department, eventually lying face-down on the floor, convulsing.
Green had been involuntarily admitted June 18 for what the hospital described as "agitation and psychosis."
Nearly 24 hours after her arrival, the camera recorded hospital workers looking at her body and appearing to ignore her. Finally, a hospital employee nudges her lifeless body with his foot and summons help. But it's too late.
Green died on the floor.
| Sad how this happened. She should of had help, but she was forced to wait. And for too long... 
here's the video of her: Woman who died on hospital floor is honored in death - CNN.com
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