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Residents tell council of repeated hospital and policing failures; city offers to facilitate meetings with hospital executives
Summary
Two residents told the council about alleged mistreatment at Palm Bay Hospital and unsatisfactory responses from police. City staff said they would try to help arrange a meeting with hospital management and review the law-enforcement interactions.
At Nov. 6 public comment, residents Charles Allen Jr. and Larisha Parker gave extended testimony alleging repeated medical mistreatment at Palm Bay Hospital and inadequate police responses to threats and harassment. Both speakers said hospital staff dismissed symptoms, failed to diagnose a broken bone and pressured a mother to consent to an invasive procedure they believed was…
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