A mentally ill woman who died on the floor of a New York hospital emergency room was killed by blood cots, medical officials say.

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) - City hospital officials agreed in court Tuesday to implement reforms at a psychiatric ward where surveillance footage showed a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers failed to help for more than an hour.

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By David B. Caruso Associated Press NEW YORK -- City hospital officials agreed in court Tuesday to implement reforms at a psychiatric ward where surveillance footage showed a woman falling from her chair, writhing on the floor and dying as workers failed to help for more than an hour.

Lawyers suing a New York hospital have released video that allegedly shows a patient lying ignored on the floor in the psychiatric emergency unit. Esmin Green died June 19 while waiting for a bed in the inpatient unit at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn.