The pharmacy took hours to fill potentially life-saving prescriptions. Doctors failed to give patients required medical assessments. Nurses and others neglected to consistently monitor patients’ vital signs as they lay slowly dying.
The lapses touched different departments, different employees, different leaders. 1, 2017, more than any other Illinois hospital that’s monitored by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “I wish I’d never let them take him to Roseland.” Melichsia Boss, whose father died at Roseland Community Hospital in 2021įederal regulators have cited Roseland at least 72 times since Jan. The deaths of those 13 patients suggest that conditions at Roseland had become dire - so much so that illnesses that should have been treatable had become potentially fatal and a hospital long dedicated to treating its South Side neighbors safely did not always manage to do so. In the complaint, the physician alleges that another doctor who used to practice at the hospital was slow to respond to patients’ medical needs, contributing to their deaths. Two other deaths are highlighted in a whistleblower complaint that a former Roseland physician filed with the Illinois Department of Public Health. At least four more deaths during that period have prompted lawsuits against the hospital, with families of patients alleging that their loved ones would be alive if not for the staff’s medical missteps. 1, 2020, errors or neglect have contributed to the deaths of at least seven Roseland patients, including one who was pregnant, according to federal inspection reports. Always on time.īut federal inspection reports, medical malpractice lawsuits and a whistleblower complaint to the state paint the hospital as putting patients at risk of harm or death, an investigation by ProPublica and WTTW News has found. The hospital’s website is loaded with pithy phrases to reassure patients: Trust us. And for years, leaders at the nonprofit facility have defended it, arguing the safety net hospital is essential to the health of residents on Chicago’s South Side. ROSELAND - For years, Roseland Community Hospital has been buffeted by complaints about the quality of its medical care and the competence of its management, all while periodically at risk of shutting down. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and WTTW/Chicago PBS.
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