{"id":2678,"date":"2024-04-19T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2024-04-19T11:16:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T11:16:02","slug":"he-thinks-his-wife-died-in-an-understaffed-hospital-now-hes-trying-to-change-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthynewsusa.com\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"He Thinks His Wife Died in an Understaffed Hospital. Now He\u2019s Trying to Change the Industry."},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the past year, police Detective Tim Lillard has spent most of his waking hours unofficially investigating his wife\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

The question has never been exactly how Ann Picha-Lillard died on Nov. 19, 2022: She succumbed to respiratory failure after an infection put too much strain on her weakened lungs. She was 65.<\/p>\n

For Tim Lillard, the question has been why.<\/p>\n

Lillard had been in the hospital with his wife every day for a month. Nurses in the intensive care unit had told him they were short-staffed, and were constantly rushing from one patient to the next.<\/p>\n

Lillard tried to pitch in where he could: brushing Ann\u2019s shoulder-length blonde hair or flagging down help when her tracheostomy tube gurgled \u2014 a sign of possible respiratory distress.<\/p>\n

So the day he walked into the ICU and saw staff members huddled in Ann\u2019s room, he knew it was serious. He called the couple\u2019s adult children: \u201cIt\u2019s Mom,\u201d he told them. \u201cCome now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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