OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – A jury has found that CHI Health was not negligent in the death of a 47-year-old woman who was treated at the hospital in November 2022 and later died in a jail cell.
Aundrea Milnes was brought to CHI Health-Creighton University Medical Center in the early morning hours of Nov. 3, 2022, complaining of lower abdominal pain. At the hospital, she was evaluated by a nurse and a doctor, who diagnosed her with menstrual cramps and sent her on her way. But her family’s attorney said Milnes succumbed to complications of an abdominal and intestinal condition.
Aundrea Milnes(Douglas County Jail)
Reports showed that Milnes refused to leave the hospital, showin up at a different entrance about 25 minutes later. Her family said that she was in “severe and excruciating pain and was laying in front of the east entrance.”
The hospital called the police when the woman wouldn’t leave, and officers took Milnes into custody for trespassing, booking her into the Douglas County Corrections facility, where she was pronouced dead just before 3 p.m. that afternoon.
About a year after Milnes’ death, a grand jury determined there was no evidence of wrongdoing by law enforcement, and court documents say the doctor, nurse, and hospital at large deny any wrongdoing as well, saying they met the standard of care.
The case went to trial Tuesday, Jan. 21. Nine days later, the jury determined that Milnes had been stabilized before she was discharge from the hospital, meaning that CHI Health-CUMC had complied with federal law EMTALA — even though she kept coming back and died a few hours later.
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