By: Iris Eng

Iris Eng — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 20:28:00 +0000

I can understand that sometimes parents and children are separated against their will. Children become pawns, sometimes. Parents leave homes when they feel inadequate or have issues they are concerned may be to much for their families. That being said, I was a Veteran’s NURSE at that very hospital. I became disabled on a different floor. I know that overall, that hospital is one of the better VA hospitals. No doubt he was on second floor and signed himself in. The issue is really that no one had legal recourse to prevent him from signing himself out again. The hospital stated they called a taxi which he did not take. It is ridiculous to sue a hospital who cannot prevent someone from leaving. The ONLY way that they could have held him there is if there was a hearing of incompetence and someone had been assigned to be his legal guardian/obviously NOT the case here. People need to keep an eye out in places like the parking lots….especially in freezing weather like we’ve been having. NOTHING would have prevented him from going back into the lobby of the hospital and spending the night there if he had needed to!

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By: Iris Eng