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Cape Cod MA Nov 5 2009
The attorney for the family of a man who died after being restrained at Cape Cod Hospital says the family wants a copy of the surveillance video that allegedly captured the incident.
“The family was promised the video,” said Kerry Choi, the Boston attorney representing the family of Daniel J. Ryan of Mashpee.
The Ryan family was told Oct. 13 the video would be available, Choi said. At that time Ryan, a father of two, was still on life support at the hospital following a scuffle with security guards. He died Oct. 29 and will be laid to rest tomorrow.
“They would like to see the video and know what happened,” said Choi, noting that the video was “yet to be forthcoming.”
Three weeks before his death, Ryan got into an altercation with security guards while visiting the hospital to see his wife, Jaime Ryan, a patient there.
Daniel Ryan, 35, had been acting erratically and was sent to the emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation, a source told the Cape Cod Times. At some point, Ryan left the emergency room, and security guards attempted to restrain him.
The hospital employees were trying to prevent him from harming others while waiting for police to arrive, according to David Reilly, a spokesman for Cape Cod Healthcare, the parent company of Cape Cod and Falmouth hospitals.
It’s not clear what type of hold security guards used on Ryan, although Reilly has denied media reports it was a chokehold. A source said Ryan collapsed from lack of oxygen to the brain.
An investigation into the cause of death is ongoing, according to the office of Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe.
The state Department of Public Health also is investigating.
Robin Lord, a spokeswoman for Cape Cod Healthcare, said yesterday the organization would not comment beyond the two official statements already released by Reilly.
HYANNIS MA Nov 5 2009 – The state Department of Public Health and the Barnstable police are investigating an altercation between a patient and Cape Cod Hospital employees that led to the patient’s death this week.
The hospital released a prepared statement Friday.
“Cape Cod Hospital can confirm that a patient who died in the hospital earlier this week was involved in a altercation in which certain of our employees restrained the individual while waiting for additional assistance,” said David Reilly, spokesman for Cape Cod Healthcare, which owns both Cape hospitals. “Several of those employee were injured themselves although none to the extent of those involved in the event at Massachusetts General Hospital just a few days ago.”
On Tuesday, a psychiatric patient at Massachusetts General Hospital was shot dead by an off-duty security guard because the patient was repeatedly stabbing one of the hospital doctors.
“At the time of this event,” Reilly continued, “the hospital’s employees were trying to prevent the patient from harming others within our facility while waiting for the police to return to the hospital.”
Reilly said the police had been called earlier in the day to assist with the same patient. He said the hospital is fully cooperating with an investigation by the Barnstable police and the Department of Public Health.
Reilly declined to say more, citing medical privacy laws.
On Oct. 16, a 35-year-old man came to visit his wife in the hospital, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. He had been caught on a video camera driving erratically. Once inside the hospital, the man acted irrationally, the source said.
The man ended up in the emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation, the source said. The emergency room employees placed him in “one-on-one observation,” which means a hospital employee was assigned to watch him closely.
At some point, the man bolted from the emergency room and ran through the hospital, the source said.
A short time later, a page came over the loud speaker calling for help in the lobby of the Mugar Building. Then the page announced a “Code 99,” a medical emergency usually requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Hospital security put the man in a choke hold, rendering him unconscious, according to WXTK radio.
The Cape Cod Times source said the man was placed on life support because of a lack of oxygen in his brain. He was on life support for nearly two weeks before he died, the source said.
The attorney for the family of a man who died after being restrained at Cape Cod Hospital says the family wants a copy of the surveillance video that allegedly captured the incident.
“The family was promised the video,” said Kerry Choi, the Boston attorney representing the family of Daniel J. Ryan of Mashpee.
The Ryan family was told Oct. 13 the video would be available, Choi said. At that time Ryan, a father of two, was still on life support at the hospital following a scuffle with security guards. He died Oct. 29 and will be laid to rest tomorrow.
“They would like to see the video and know what happened,” said Choi, noting that the video was “yet to be forthcoming.”
Three weeks before his death, Ryan got into an altercation with security guards while visiting the hospital to see his wife, Jaime Ryan, a patient there.
Daniel Ryan, 35, had been acting erratically and was sent to the emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation, a source told the Cape Cod Times. At some point, Ryan left the emergency room, and security guards attempted to restrain him.
The hospital employees were trying to prevent him from harming others while waiting for police to arrive, according to David Reilly, a spokesman for Cape Cod Healthcare, the parent company of Cape Cod and Falmouth hospitals.
It’s not clear what type of hold security guards used on Ryan, although Reilly has denied media reports it was a chokehold. A source said Ryan collapsed from lack of oxygen to the brain.
An investigation into the cause of death is ongoing, according to the office of Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe.
The state Department of Public Health also is investigating.
Robin Lord, a spokeswoman for Cape Cod Healthcare, said yesterday the organization would not comment beyond the two official statements already released by Reilly.
HYANNIS MA Nov 5 2009 – The state Department of Public Health and the Barnstable police are investigating an altercation between a patient and Cape Cod Hospital employees that led to the patient’s death this week.
The hospital released a prepared statement Friday.
“Cape Cod Hospital can confirm that a patient who died in the hospital earlier this week was involved in a altercation in which certain of our employees restrained the individual while waiting for additional assistance,” said David Reilly, spokesman for Cape Cod Healthcare, which owns both Cape hospitals. “Several of those employee were injured themselves although none to the extent of those involved in the event at Massachusetts General Hospital just a few days ago.”
On Tuesday, a psychiatric patient at Massachusetts General Hospital was shot dead by an off-duty security guard because the patient was repeatedly stabbing one of the hospital doctors.
“At the time of this event,” Reilly continued, “the hospital’s employees were trying to prevent the patient from harming others within our facility while waiting for the police to return to the hospital.”
Reilly said the police had been called earlier in the day to assist with the same patient. He said the hospital is fully cooperating with an investigation by the Barnstable police and the Department of Public Health.
Reilly declined to say more, citing medical privacy laws.
On Oct. 16, a 35-year-old man came to visit his wife in the hospital, according to a source with knowledge of the incident. He had been caught on a video camera driving erratically. Once inside the hospital, the man acted irrationally, the source said.
The man ended up in the emergency room for a psychiatric evaluation, the source said. The emergency room employees placed him in “one-on-one observation,” which means a hospital employee was assigned to watch him closely.
At some point, the man bolted from the emergency room and ran through the hospital, the source said.
A short time later, a page came over the loud speaker calling for help in the lobby of the Mugar Building. Then the page announced a “Code 99,” a medical emergency usually requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Hospital security put the man in a choke hold, rendering him unconscious, according to WXTK radio.
The Cape Cod Times source said the man was placed on life support because of a lack of oxygen in his brain. He was on life support for nearly two weeks before he died, the source said.
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