Officers assess patient complaint at hospital, Nashville TN
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As discussed during the dispatch call, officers and hospital staff at Vanderbilt University Medical Center discussed a possible complaint from a patient who claimed they were being held against their will. Coordination was made to manage phone access and determine whether to take further action. The situation appears to have involved assessing the validity of the patient's report and ensuring proper communication between law enforcement and medical staff.
Audio|Heard on: Davidson TN Law Dispatch Group Calls
Listen to dispatch call
02:30
Transcript:
00:00
You should be getting a call from Metro here in a bit for a patient who's in the hospital and wants to press charges for keeping them here.
00:10
Staff, no.
00:13
Sixty.
00:15
Sixty.
00:17
Sixty-two to Jeff, traffic.
00:24
Forty-eight boy.
00:27
Go ahead.
00:29
But it's like escort.
00:30
If you'll see the light at the adult ambulance bay, then going over to Peds Bed 14, over to pass.
00:39
Forty Charles, we can take that.
00:41
Ten four.
00:43
Six three.
00:44
Six three.
00:47
Ninety six Code Narts on foot.
00:51
Dispatch, did you get there?
00:54
I did not.
00:59
Code Narts on foot?
01:03
Ten four.
01:05
Thirty one.
01:07
Thirty one.
01:10
I let staff know they're going to hold off on taking that patient's phone for the time being.
01:17
If he calls them much right then, they will take his phone down though.
01:26
Ten four. So we have the dispatch of 30.
01:33
Go ahead.
01:35
And so we're receiving a call from a patient in a hospital room.
01:42
He wants to make a report about being held against his will.
01:45
He was transferred to (hospital name withheld) from another facility.
01:49
Do you want us to step back and talk to him or sign on the call?
01:53
31, not the one I have yet.
01:56
And 31, I just asked you if needed to signal nine on the call and I didn't get a response, so I'm directing to 30.
02:05
Ten four. You can assume what I want.
02:09
Thirty to thirty-one, talk to staff, see if they need to take that phone away from him.
02:14
Thirty-one, correct.
02:21
Five eighty-three.
02:23
Five eighty-three.
02:26
Tonight is on 30.
02:29
Ten four.
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