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Jun 13, 2007 11:30 am US/Pacific

Tapes Show Details Of King-Harbor Hospital Death

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Newly-released tapes show a woman died in King-Harbor Hospital in Los Angeles after doctors ignored her and 911 dispatchers would not arrange her transport to another facility.

Edith Isabel Rodriguez, 43, died in the emergency room May 9. Tape transcripts show the woman's boyfriend and a bystander called 911 to say hospital staff was ignoring Rodriguez while she vomited blood and writhed in pain for 45 minutes in the hospital waiting area.

Dispatchers said paramedics would not come to move Rodriguez to another hospital. Instead, dispatchers suggested contacting hospital administrators and security, who then arrested Rodriguez for a parole violation. She died on her way out of the hospital.

Experts say Rodriguez could have survived if she had been treated early enough for her perforated bowel.

The incident is the latest high-profile lapse at King-Harbor, formerly known as King/Drew.

State authorities are investigating the death, and last week federal inspectors gave the hospital 23 days to shape up or risk losing federal funding.

(© 2007 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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