Byline: MIKE GOODWIN Staff Writer
SCHENECTADY - The Schenectady County Jail's medical staff was "manifestly unable to care for" a prisoner who died in her cell less than a week after open-heart surgery, and two nurses who bungled her care there should be fired, a state Commission of Correction investigation has found.
The commission recommended that two jail nurses, identified only by their initials in the report, lose their jobs for gross negligence for how they cared for Laura Woolsey while she suffered a fatal heart attack in her cell on Aug. 3. Five days earlier, she had heart valve replacement surgery at Ellis Hospital. The state recommended that a third nurse be disciplined.
The report also urges the …
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