Auditor Issues Report

The District of Columbia’s Office of Inspector General has issued an 82-page report on the handling of an EMS incident last January that resulted in the death of a newspaper reporter after a street mugging. David Rosenbaum, 63, died from head injuries, but his case raised all sorts of questions about how the incident was handled by the dispatcher, EMS crews and hospital. Now the OIG exonerates the dispatcher, saying simply, “The call taker and dispatchers who handled the
911 call carried out their duties appropriately.” However, the OIG notes that some call-handling procedures were changed as a result of the incident. Download (pdf. 4.4 Mb) the entire OIG report here, and read how the story was pursued by a rival newspaper here.