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Suit: ‘Abandoned’ Pennsylvania man dies in hospital waiting room

By By MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press
Terry Odoms - WPXI This undated photo provided by his family in August 2021 shows Terry Odoms. Odoms, 72, who was struggling to breathe, arched his back and waved his arm in an apparent bid to get someone's attention before slumping over in an emergency department waiting room at WellSpan York Hospital in Pennsylvania in 2019, where hospital staff ignored him for two hours, according to surveillance video released Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021 as part of a wrongful-death suit filed by his family. (Odoms Family via AP) (AP)
By By MICHAEL RUBINKAM - Associated Press

YORK, Pa. — A wrongful-death suit says a Pennsylvania hospital “abandoned” a 72-year-old man in an emergency department waiting room for two hours even though his vital signs showed he required immediate medical attention.

Surveillance video released Thursday shows that staff at WellSpan York Hospital walked by Terry Odoms a dozen times, evidently failing to notice he was unconscious in his wheelchair.

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Lawyers for Odoms’ family blame severe hospital understaffing.

WellSpan, a regional health network with eight hospitals and 20,000 employees, declined comment on the allegations but calls his death a “tragic situation.”

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