In brief: Protocol OK’d over man’s death
PORTLAND – Federal regulators say a Portland hospital followed federal laws and regulations when it responded to a man having a heart attack Feb. 10 in the hospital parking garage.
Police tried to revive the unconscious man found slumped in a car. Officers who sought help from the Portland Adventist Medical Center emergency room said they were frustrated when they were told to call an ambulance.
The state medical examiner says Birgilio Marin-Fuentes died of natural causes. He tried to drive himself to the hospital and apparently suffered a heart attack and lost control of his vehicle. Security tapes show he went unnoticed for at least 20 minutes.
In a statement Wednesday, hospital officials say their procedures have been found to be in compliance with all federal laws and regulations.
They say they followed their protocol by calling 911 to the scene and sent out the charge nurse, nursing supervisor and two security officials who have a mobile defibrillator. They also sent an ambulance paramedic.
Parents released in faith healing death
OREGON CITY, Ore. – An Oregon couple who practice faith healing and were sentenced to 16 months in prison after their teenage son died of a treatable condition have been released about three months early.
Jeffrey and Marci Beagley were released Wednesday from separate prisons. The Oregonian says their sentences were reduced by 98 days for good behavior. They were convicted last year of criminally negligent homicide in the death of their 16-year-old son Neil, who died in 2008 of complications from an untreated urinary blockage, a treatable condition.
Testimony at their Clackamas County Circuit Court trial showed the Beagleys were members of the Followers of Christ church. Members reject most medical treatment.
Missing boy’s dad’s divorce on hold
PORTLAND – A judge handling the pending divorce case between the father and stepmother of a missing Oregon boy has canceled a hearing this week and will delay it for another three months.
Kaine Horman, father of Kyron Horman, filed for divorce shortly after his son disappeared last June from Skyline School in suburban Portland.
Law enforcement authorities informed him they had learned that his wife, Terri Moulton Horman, allegedly tried to solicit a landscaper to kill him about six months before Kyron’s disappearance.
The Oregonian reports the same judge ruled last October there was a substantial overlap of evidence in the divorce case and a separate criminal investigation.
No new hearing date has been set.