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75岁妇女在医院死亡，SF赔偿120万美元！上一个死的赔了300万！
SF to pay $1.2M over death of missing woman found in hospital stairway
SF为在医院楼梯上发现的失踪妇女死亡，赔偿120万美元
San Francisco has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle a lawsuit from the family of a 75-year-old woman who was found dead in the stairwell of an engineering building at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
旧金山同意支付120万美元，了结扎克伯格旧金山总医院工程大楼楼梯井死亡的一名75岁妇女的诉讼。
Ruby Lee Andersen was living at a residential care facility on the hospital campus in May 2018 when she left to run an errand and did not return. A worker discovered her body 11 days later in a nearby building.
鲁比·李·安徒生(Ruby Lee Andersen) 2018年5月离开医院去办点事，之后就没有再回来。11天后，一名工作人员在附近的一栋建筑里发现了她的尸体。
Her family alleged in a June 2019 lawsuit that the city-run facility failed to care properly for Andersen. She was allowed to sign herself out to buy a battery at a nearby drug store despite displaying signs of dementia.
她的家人在2019年6月的一项诉讼中称，由城市运营的安徒生医疗机构未能妥善照顾安徒生。尽管她有痴呆的迹象，她还是被允许离开医院去附近的药店买电池。
Andersen then found her way into the stairwell through multiple unlocked doors until one locked behind her, according to the lawsuit. While the last door should have triggered an alarm, there was no evidence of it sounding.
起诉书称，安徒生穿过多扇未上锁的门进入楼梯井，直到其中一扇门在她身后上锁。虽然最后一扇门应该触发了警报，但并没有证据表明它在响。
In August 2018, state officials cited the Behavioral Health Center’s Residential Care Facility for the Elderly at 887 Potrero Ave. for failing to provide Andersen with “appropriate care and supervision.”
2018年8月，该州官员指出，位于波特雷罗大道887号的行为健康中心老年人寄宿护理机构未能为安德森提供“适当的照顾和监督”。
Her family reached the settlement with the City Attorney’s Office last November, court records show. The proposal was introduced to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday for a vote at a later date.
法庭记录显示，她的家人去年11月与市检察官办公室达成了和解。该提议已于周二提交监事会，稍后进行表决。
This is the second time San Francisco has reached a costly settlement with the family of a person found dead in a stairwell at the hospital. Officials agreed to pay nearly $3 million over the 2013 death of patient Lynne Spalding.
这是旧金山第二次与医院楼梯间死亡人员的家属达成昂贵的和解协议。官员们同意为2013年病人琳恩·斯伯丁(Lynne Spalding)的死亡支付近300万美元。
Attorney Haig Harris represented the families in both cases. He could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.
在这两起案件中，律师黑格·哈里斯(Haig Harris)都是受害者家属的代理律师。周四记者无法立即联系到他置评。
City Attorney’s Office spokesperson John Cote called Andersen’s death “tragic.”
市检察官办公室发言人约翰·科特称安徒生的死是“悲剧”。
“Our hearts go out to her family,” Cote said. “We feel this proposed settlement is an appropriate resolution given all of the circumstances.”
“我们的心与她的家人同在，”科特说。“我们认为，考虑到各种情况，这一拟议的解决方案是一个适当的解决方案。”
Her death also exposed deficiencies in the hospital’s security plans.
她的死也暴露了医院安全计划的缺陷。
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department, which is in charge of hospital security, made attempts to find Andersen at the time, but was not required to conduct a campus-wide search for her because she was not a hospital patient.
负责医院安全的旧金山治安部门当时试图找到安徒生，但没有被要求在全院范围内寻找她，因为她不是医院的病人。
Neither the department nor a spokesperson for the hospital with the Department of Public Health could confirm Thursday whether those security protocols have since been updated.
周四，该部门和医院公共卫生部门的发言人都无法确认这些安全规程是否已经更新。
DPH spokesperson Brent Andrew declined to comment on the case.
DPH发言人布伦特·安德鲁(Brent Andrew)拒绝就此案置评。
But Nancy Crowley, a spokesperson for the sheriff, said the department had “strong” communication with the hospital.
但警长发言人南希·克劳利(Nancy Crowley)表示，警局与医院有过很深的沟通。
“Our security team meets every week with SF General security staff to flag any issues which could include a missing persons search,” Crowley said. “We are working with them.”
克劳利说:“我们的安全团队每周都会与旧金山一般安全人员会面，通报可能包括失踪人口搜索在内的任何问题。”“我们正在与他们合作。”
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https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-to-pay-1-2m-over-death-of-missing-woman-found-in-hospital-stairway/
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