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CITY OF IOWA – The University of Iowa and the state Attorney General's Office agreed to pay an Illinois family $ 2.5 million after a 40-year-old patient at UI hospitals and clinics in 2014 jumped off a parking ramp and then died of his wounds.
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UI Physicians , a medical and surgical group practice at the UI Carver College of Medicine, will cover $ 1.25 million. The other half will come from the state's general fund, according to a letter from Deputy Attorney General Anne Updegraff.
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Payments of responsibility for claims involving UI The doctors come from clinical income. according to hospital officials.
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The agreement resolves a lawsuit that Kathleen Haptonstall and her husband, William Haptonstall, filed against the state in October 2016, more than two years after Kathleem Haptonstall jumped from the fifth floor of a parking ramp and fell about 50 feet.
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She had She was admitted to the UI residential eating disorders program in August of that year with a health history that included diagnosed depression, delusional disorder, growth retardation, mood disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and a somatic disorder, according to the lawsuit. She had tried twice before committing suicide.
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The month Next, his assistant psychiatrist told him that he would be discharged because of his unwillingness to follow his treatment recommendations, thus canceling the therapy session that day, according to the lawsuit.
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Due to that the cancellation was not communicated correctly, a staff member took Haptonstall, visibly annoyed and angry, from his psychiatric unit closed to the occupational therapy kitchen. While escorting Haptonstall and three other patients to the closed unit, the procedures were not followed and Haptonstall escaped, according to the lawsuit.
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Addressed to the parking ramp and jumped, leaving her with serious injuries that required a prolonged hospital stay and amputation of a leg. A Go Fund Me website reported that he also suffered a broken neck, perforated lungs, broken ribs and a cerebral hemorrhage.
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She and her husband accused UIHC of negligence in allowing him to leave a closed unit when he was at high risk of suicide and not supervising it.
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After to file the claim, Haptonstall died on July 22, 2017, "due to complications from the fall", according to the state.
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Payment it is almost the same as a judge in the Johnson County District Court ruled for a contractor who sued UIHC for not paying for work in the new UI Stead Family Children's Hospital and also for some work in the Hancher Auditorium.
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Although the University has paid a portion of the $ 21.5 million prize to Modern Piping, still owes more than $ 17 million. The UI has asked a judge to suspend the award pending an appeal.
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And the UI this fall will continue his fight with another contractor about the work of Children's Hospital, which includes packages of offers that the contractor says have a value of $ 64.1 million.
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The news of the Haptonstall agreement come three years after UI officials in 2015 told The Gazette that the university could install barriers around the parking ramps in response to four suicide attempts, with three, at that time, resulting in deaths . Authorities confirmed on Tuesday that the university began installing safety barriers on the hospital's fourth ramp, the Pomerantz Family Pavilion and the Newton Road ramp in August 2017. The barriers over 8 feet high were installed where the lift exceeded 40 feet. The project cost $ 1.3 million, according to UIHC spokesperson Molly Rossiter.
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l Comments : (319) 339-3158; vanessa.miller@thegazette.com
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GET HELP
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Those who contemplate death by suicide, or those who fear a loved one may be having suicidal thoughts, can get help on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 800-273-8255 – or on SuicidePreventionlifeline.org
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