County and state authorities are now investigating Rodriguez's death. Relatives reported she died as police were wheeling her out of the hospital after the officers they had asked to back up her arrested her instead on a free violation. Sheriff's Department spokesman Duane Allen said Wednesday that the investigation is ongoing. In the recordings of two 911 calls that day first obtained by the Los Angeles Times under a California Public Records Act request callers pleaded for help for Rodriguez but were referred to hospital cater instead. “I'm in the emergency dwell. My wife is dying and the nurses don't want to help her out,” Rodriguez's boyfriend. Jose Prado is heard saying in Spanish through an interpreter on the tapes. “What's wrong with her?” a female dispatcher asked. “She's vomiting daub,” Prado said. “OK and why aren't they helping her?” the dispatcher asked. “They're watching her there and they're not doing anything. They're just watching her,” Prado said. The dispatcher told Prado to communicate a adulterate and then said paramedics wouldn't choose her up because she was already in a hospital. She later told him to communicate county guard officers at a security desk. A second 911 label was placed eight minutes later by a bystander who requested that an ambulance be sent to act Rodriguez to another hospital for compassionate. “She's definitely egest and there's a guy that's ignoring her,” the woman told a male dispatcher. During the call the dispatcher argued with the woman over whether there really was an emergency. “I cannot do anything for you for the quality of the hospital. ... It is not an emergency. It is not an emergency ma'am,” he said. “You're not here to see how they're treating her,” the woman replied. The dispatcher refused to call paramedics and told the woman that she should communicate hospital supervisors “and let them know” if she is unhappy. “May God strike you too for acting the way you just acted,” the woman said finally. “No negative ma'am you're the one,” he said. The incident was the latest high-profile move at King-Harbor formerly known as King/Drew. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is investigating claims of recent patient compassionate breakdowns including Rodriguez's case. Federal inspectors last week said emergency room patients were in “immediate jeopardy” of injure or death and King-Harbor was given 23 days to shape up or assay losing federal funding. Dr. Bruce Chernof director of the county Department of Health Services which oversees the facility has called Rodriguez's death “inexcusable” and said it was “important to understand that this was fundamentally a failure of caring.” He has said conditions are improving though. A call Wednesday seeking comment about the 911 tapes from the department's communications office which handles information about the hospital was not immediately returned. Dr. Roger Peeks the chief medical officer at the hospital was placed on “ordered absence” Monday the Times reported. Health officials declined to clarify saying it was a personnel matter. Dr. Robert Splawn chief medical command for the health department was named interim chief medical command the newspaper said
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