{"id":1615371,"date":"2022-08-18T18:17:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T22:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1615371"},"modified":"2022-08-18T18:17:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T22:17:22","slug":"they-untreated-him-to-death-lawsuit-alleges-23-year-old-was-left-alone-for-7-hours-in-yale-hospital-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-untreated-him-to-death-lawsuit-alleges-23-year-old-was-left-alone-for-7-hours-in-yale-hospital-er\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Untreated Him To Death\u2019: Lawsuit Alleges 23-Year-Old Was Left Alone For 7 Hours In Yale Hospital ER"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthey-untreated-him-to-death-lawsuit-alleges-23-year-old-was-left-alone-for-7-hours-in-yale-hospital-er%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1615371&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>William \u201cBilly\u201d Miller was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtnh.com\/news\/family-alleges-yale-new-haven-hospital-left-man-alone-for-seven-hours-to-die-in-hallway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left alone<\/a> in a hallway for seven hours \u2014 allegedly unattended and untreated \u2014 at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he died last year at the age of 23.<\/p>\n<p>Miller\u2019s mother has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/news\/article\/Lawsuit-Man-dies-after-being-left-unattended-at-17379835.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed a lawsuit<\/a> in Superior Court, saying that the hospital staffers were negligent in their duties. \u201cThey untreated him to death,\u201d Tina Darnsteadt explained.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While in an ambulance, a 23-year-old man called his mom, explained what had happened to him and said he was feeling OK, a lawsuit says.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, he was found dead at a Yale hospital.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OXe3x9QiC5\">https:\/\/t.co\/OXe3x9QiC5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Connecticut Post (@connpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/connpost\/status\/1560274548276072449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to both authorities and family members, Miller had initially been treated by firefighters after ingesting a white powder that he thought might have been laced with fentanyl. The East Haven Fire Department had responded to a call at 6:25 p.m. on May 10, 2021 from Peter\u2019s Rock Association Park, and they were already treating Miller with naloxone (Narcan) \u2014 which is used to combat potential opioid overdoses \u2014 when an ambulance arrived.<\/p>\n<p>The ambulance transported Miller to Yale-New Haven Hospital then \u2014 in spite of the fact that he was reportedly \u201cwalking, talking, and alert\u201d at the time \u2014 because the effects of opioid toxicity can recur very quickly and they wanted to make sure he was under observation. He reportedly called his mother from the ambulance to tell her that he was all right. He arrived at the hospital at 7:13 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, from that point until 1:56 a.m., Miller was not evaluated by hospital staffers. Surveillance footage showed him getting up from the stretcher several times \u2014 to use the bathroom and to get something to eat \u2014 and using the phone, after which point he looked as though he had fallen asleep.<\/p>\n<p>At 1:56 a.m., a nurse found Miller unresponsive and without a pulse, and according to the lawsuit, by then he had clearly\u00a0\u201cbeen in full cardiac arrest for an unknown period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next morning, we called the hospital for an update but we couldn\u2019t get any details,\u201d she said. \u201cMy last conversation with Billy he said everything was going to be OK and he would see me tomorrow but tomorrow has never come for us,\u201d Darnsteadt said.<\/p>\n<p>The family\u2019s attorney, Sean McElligott, added,\u00a0\u201cThis young man\u2019s death was completely avoidable. The hospital failed to provide him with the most basic medical care. This should never happen. Billy\u2019s death was tragic and his family and loved ones are devastated by the utter lack of care provided at the hospital. I will work hard to make sure nothing like this happens to another family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hospital officials confirmed that they are aware of the lawsuit, adding, \u201cEven in the best organizations gaps in care may occur. When they do, our goal is to acknowledge them, learn from them, and ensure that we minimize any chance that they ever occur again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William \u201cBilly\u201d Miller was left alone in a hallway for seven hours \u2014 allegedly unattended and untreated \u2014 at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he died last year at the age of 23. Miller\u2019s mother has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court, saying that the hospital staffers were negligent in their duties. \u201cThey untreated him to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1615475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1615475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}