From CBS News:
An East Bay family said the decision not to take their relative to a nearby hospital this week was a fatal one. They said Doctors Medical Center had the equipment to save him from cardiac arrest, but the cash-strapped hospital recently stopped accepting ambulance patients. “He had problems breathing,” said Betty Crater.
Her brother, Booker Williams, was rushed to Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley. The family said he waited 90 minutes to get treated, but it was too late. Williams died of cardiac arrest Wednesday. “I’m saddened. I know he’s in a better place,” Crater said. Crater said the outcome would have been very different had paramedics been allowed to transport her brother to Doctors Medical Center in San Pablo, near his Richmond home. “My brother could have been alive today if the hospital had been open,” she said.
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