Q&A
Debate over hospitalizations and emergency contact notifications
1:41:12
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Council Member Restler presses CHS representatives for data on hospitalizations and subsequent emergency contact notifications. CHS explains that hospital staff typically handle these notifications, revealing a gap in their data collection.
- 631 hospitalizations reported in the last calendar year
- Confusion over responsibility for notifying emergency contacts in hospitalization cases
- CHS unable to provide specific data on emergency contact notifications for hospitalizations
Jeanette Merrill
1:41:12
Sorry.
Lincoln Restler
1:41:13
When people have that and so what subset of the 1400 was of your 1400 is that number?
Jeanette Merrill
1:41:18
We don't know that mashing, but last calendar year, there were 631 hospitalizations.
Lincoln Restler
1:41:22
Okay.
1:41:22
In the 631 instances where somebody was hospitalized as a result of devastating injury that they've occurred in Ryker's Island as a result of use of force by corrections officer or another detainee, how many times was the emergency contact contacted within 1 hour?
Jeanette Merrill
1:41:39
So generally, those notifications that we're talking about hospital based injuries would be by hospital staff because those would be the treating physicians and would be best positioned.
1:41:48
To communicate with family as Doctor.
1:41:50
Esveggie Aligned.
Lincoln Restler
1:41:51
Okay.
1:41:51
How many time but yours you said you had data on the contact rates.
1:41:56
Do you not?
Jeanette Merrill
1:41:57
On the contact
Lincoln Restler
1:41:58
for hospital The emergency contacts for people were hospitalized, how often were their emergency contacts contact?
Jeanette Merrill
1:42:03
So, again, that would be a hot hospital staff who would be making those notifications?
Rajesh Mehra
1:42:06
You
Lincoln Restler
1:42:06
don't have that data either.
Jeanette Merrill
1:42:07
We are in hospital staff.
Lincoln Restler
1:42:08
I understand that, but you have no information on whether the emergency contacts were ever contacted.
1:42:12
That's my point.
1:42:13
There's no data here at all.
1:42:15
You have zero data, zero information, zero answers to any of these questions about when the emergency contacts were actually contact it.
1:42:22
You we can go through the different categories that they could be fit into, but the bottom line is you have no data and no answers.
1:42:28
I On whether the emergency contact was ever reached, that's what I'm asking.
1:42:33
And then what time frame?
1:42:34
You have no
Jeanette Merrill
1:42:34
hospital staff may have more of that information.
Lincoln Restler
1:42:37
But you're coming to this hearing to respond to the bill, and you have no information or data to respond to the question.
1:42:42
You're saying the hospital staff may have reached out.
1:42:44
They may have the data.
1:42:45
That's the answer.
1:42:46
Right?
1:42:46
That's the best case scenario.
1:42:47
You have no data otherwise, no information otherwise, no insight otherwise into whether family members were ever reached, emergency contacts were ever reached when a devastating injury occurred to somebody on microzylone.
Jeanette Merrill
1:42:58
So I think operationally, like understanding that the hospital staff would be best positioned speak to the family.
1:43:04
So those notifications absolutely could have happened, but CHS would not be making those notifications.
