At least four Kings County Hospital employees could face criminal charges for covering up a shocking case of neglect — a patient who fell off her chair in a psych-ward waiting room and died on the floor as staffers ignored her.
The Brooklyn DA’s Office yesterday says it plans to investigate a scathing city Department of Investigation report that uncovers the callous mistreatment of Esmin Green by hospital doctors and nurses.
Green, 49, who had a history of mental illness, was sitting in a waiting room for nearly 24 hours before collapsing from a blood clot on June 19, 2008.
She sat motionless on the floor for an hour before a nurse checked her pulse, but by then she was dead. Surveillance tapes captured the neglect.
The report found:
* Senior nurse Aida Gonzalo made three false entries in Green’s medical records, making it appear that 45 minutes before Green was found dead, she was in normal physical condition.
* Nursing aide Royal Easton made false entries, saying he observed Green asleep twice between 5 a.m. and 7 a.m., when, in fact, Easton was on break.
* Dr. Rashed Abedin and Dr. Dimitru Magardician both said they tried to examine Green, but video proved that untrue.
Two other doctors made false entries, the report said.
A hospital spokeswoman said the “psychiatric unit has been overhauled from top to bottom.”