Patient with dementia refuses hospital transport, Chicago IL


Staff at the UIC Outpatient Center near West Taylor are having trouble getting a male patient with dementia to enter a vehicle for hospital transport. Emergency services are responding.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 03
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Transcript:
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UFI1, we have an EMS call at near West Taylor is an outpatient, directive Oakland's calling, ambulance 45 engine 23 is on scene, call to say CNN is struggling with the patient.
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The resident is a male-white Polish, refusing to get in the vehicle to go to the hospital history of dementia.
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Nothing further.
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One, two, three, two.
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That's fine, if no subject is a medical emergency.
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He was able to utter seizure.
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Zone 32, 104.
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Did you copy U of I?
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Go ahead, Valerie.
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All right, sorry, I don't know if you copied or not, but we're going to call it the outpatient center for UIC near West Taylor. Fires en route. They get their staff are having issues with a patient that has dementia. They're trying to get him into the vehicle to go to the hospital. Do you have a unit that can respond to that since it's the UIC clinic?
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Location mentioned:
Near W Taylor St #3B, Chicago, IL 60612
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