Horse Confronts Hospital Security in Hawaii

According to the Star Bulletin a hospital in Hawaii actually caught the sneaky horse when it arrived on the third floor:

The patient’s relative was intoxicated, said Lani Yukimura, spokeswoman for the hospital. And he called from the lobby to say he was bringing the horse up about 7 p.m., after employees at the front desk had gone home.

He never made it to the man’s room. Security stopped him as he got off the elevator.

“It’s a very dangerous thing,” Yukimura added. “Our greatest concern is patient care.”

Still, hospital staff brought out the patient to see the horse, but the relative was wrong on two counts — it was the wrong horse and didn’t even belong to the patient.

Wrong horse. At least he had the right hospital. The front desk employees had gone home? Perhaps security saw a horse on surveillance, or maybe they smelled something funny…

Note how the hospital spokesperson turns such an embarassing incident into a marketing message about concern for patient care. Nicely done, but you really can’t get away from the fact that a horse was able to visit the third floor.

One thought on “Horse Confronts Hospital Security in Hawaii”

  1. While I can’t speak for Hawaii, in my experience hospitals have lousy security. They try to maintain as open an access policy as possible in order to aid the sick, but it also leaves them wide open to the dishonest, the drug addled, and the just plain crazy. The response to violence is always reactive, and the response to theft is staff just trying harder and harder to hide stuff. My mother is a nurse, and she has given up taking her purse to work; there just isn’t anywhere safe enough to keep it.

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