The parents of a 15-year-old girl who collapsed at a College Park recreation center have sued Grady Memorial Hospital and its emergency services, alleging their daughter’s death “was completely preventable” if an ambulance had come.
Amanda Sylvester was pronounced dead at a hospital Dec. 5, 2024, more than two hours after she fell to the court during a volleyball practice warmup at the Tracey Wyatt Recreation Center and 911 was called, a lawsuit filed this week in Fulton County State Court says. The teen’s mother drove her to Children’s Hughes Spalding Hospital afterGrady’s “failure to provide emergency transport or supply a transport-capable ambulance in response to multiple 911 calls,” the complaint alleges.
An autopsy determined the teen died of bilateral pulmonary emboli, a condition the lawsuit describes as “readily treatable if treatment is initiated in a timely fashion.”…