US Senator John Kerry aiding son whose mother died at The Holy Family Hospital in Methuen

2012-11-12 23:50:02 -

United States Senator John Kerry has forwarded a complaint "directly" to the

Board of Medicine after her son, Brian Evans, complained about the treatment he

believes caused her death.



"The Holy Family Hospital in Methuen, Massachusetts put a 62 year old woman,

with a known condition of sleep apnea, with a known heart condition, who was

throwing up all day while on a morphine drip, who was fifty pounds overweight at

just 5'2 because she couldn't walk on her knee so she recently started to gain

weight, in an unmonitored recovery room following knee replacement surgery,"

says her son, Brian Evans. "For even one minute, that was completely

unacceptable and caused her death. Without monitoring or the sleep apnea machine

they knew she was prescribed a CPAP for at home just weeks before, she died

without a single person in that hospital knowing she was having a problem. She

couldn't even jump out of bed to alert anyone of a problem as her knee was

completely wrapped from knee replacement surgery. No matter what caused her

death, she didn't have a fighting chance because no one was alerted to any issue

she was having."



A meeting is scheduled at the State House in Boston with state senators

Brownsberger and Tarr, along with an inspector from the Quality Care division of

the Department of Health. The Governor of Massachusetts is expected to attend.



Evans spoke with Patrick Kennedy at a rally for Elizabeth Warren on November

5th, exactly one month after she died, and provided them with information on his

mother.





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