A Brooklyn hospital where a patient died in a waiting room will undergo improvements mandated by a consent decree and five years of court monitoring to end years of neglect and overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, advocates for the mentally ill who had filed a lawsuit said Friday. The settlement and court order called for monitoring by the U.S. Department ...

Staffers at a Brooklyn hospital falsified medical records and lied to authorities in an attempt to cover up the neglect of a patient who died on the waiting room floor, according to city investigators. The report by New York's Department of Investigation was released Friday, exactly ...

The family of a woman who died on a hospital floor, struggling to get up while staffers ignored her, has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city for $2 million. But the family of Esmin Green, whose death was recorded on a hospital security ...

A woman who died unnoticed on a hospital floor in a scene recorded by security cameras was killed by blood clots caused by a long period of physical inactivity, according to the city's medical examiner. Esmin Green, 49, had been sitting in a waiting ...