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Jan 20, 2012 · Homicide in the E.R. – the tragic case of Beatrice Vance. January 20, 2012 ~ Carolyn Thomas. by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters. This story has been told for years, and it deserves to be told again. It’s the tale of 49-year old Beatrice Vance, who in July of 2006, arrived in the Vista Medical Center Emergency Room in Lake County, Illinois ...
Sep 17, 2006 · Sept. 17, 2006 -- In July, forty-nine-year old Beatrice Vance arrived in the Vista Medical Center Emergency Room in Lake County, Ill., complaining of nausea, shortness of breath and chest pains. A nurse saw her briefly and told her to wait.
Dec 1, 2006 · The July 28 death of Beatrice Vance is viewed as a wakeup call on a number of fronts: Was there a violation of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), brought on by inadequate triage and/or failure to reassess her condition during such a lengthy wait? Was there discrimination based on race? (Vance was black.)
Nov 21, 2006 · Beatrice Vance died of a heart attack. The coroner says waiting in the emergency room helped kill her. The 49-year-old woman’s chest was tight with pain when she walked into the ER at Vista...
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Sep 17, 2006 · At Waukegan, IL's Vista Medical Center, 49-year-old Beatrice Vance died of a heart attack, after waiting two hours in the center's emergency room. Vance had been seen briefly by a triage nurse...
Sep 15, 2006 · Beatrice Vance was pronounced dead at 2 a.m. An autopsy showed she died of a heart attack caused by blockage of an artery in her heart. Citing guidelines published by the American Heart...
Sep 15, 2006 · A coroner's jury has declared the death of a heart attack victim who spent almost two hours in a hospital waiting room to be a homicide. Beatrice Vance, 49, died of a heart attack, but the jury...
