A Brooklyn hospital where a patient died in a waiting room will undergo improvements mandated by a consent decree and five years of court monitoring to end years of neglect and overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, advocates for the mentally ill who had filed a lawsuit said Friday. The settlement and court order called for monitoring by the U.S. Department ...

The family of a woman who died on a hospital floor, struggling to get up while staffers ignored her, has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city for $2 million. But the family of Esmin Green, whose death was recorded on a hospital security ...

When staffers at a Brooklyn hospital spotted a middle-aged woman lying face-down on a waiting room floor last month, it hardly seemed like cause for alarm. The sight, after all, was common in the psychiatric emergency room at Kings County Hospital Center. The unit ...