title: When patient can't get to ER: what role should security officers play?
abstract: If someone in a hospital parking lot needs immediate medical attention, should hospital staff go out and treat the patient or call an ambulance to bring the patient inside? The answer may depend on whom you talk to. The issue drew national attention in 1998 following the death of a 15-year-old boy in Chicago who was shot by gang members. The boy's friends left him just outside the emergency room of a nearby hospital. Hospital workers refused to go out and get him, so police called an ambulance to bring him inside.
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005392:First Aid; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008824:Michigan; D010299:Parking Facilities; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D012637:Security Measures; D013781:Texas