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| Prison officials disciplined over inmate death |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/25/2004 |
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The firm providing medical care to Maryland's prison inmates has disciplined four employees in connection with the treatment they gave to a 34-year-old woman who died last month after she became ill at the women's detention center in Baltimore. A statement from Prison Health Services says the three nurses and a physician's assistant have been reprimanded and reassigned. The statement says the workers didn't perform a function usually done during the sick-call intake process. Deborah Epifanio died September 14th -- four days after she was taken from the jail to a hospital. Doctors diagnosed an advanced case of cryptococcal meningitis. Hospital records indicate she had been experiencing fainting spells before she was sent to the hospital. Her family wonders if better care might have saved her life. The death is being investigated by the state. |
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