CHICAGO (CBS) — A daughter is speaking out on behalf of her mom, after a vicious workplace attack left a healthcare worker with life-changing injuries.
Sandra Gatlin, 64, was working with a psychiatric patient in the hallway of the emergency room at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, when he violently lashed out.
Sandra’s family said video footage of the brutal attack emphasizes the need for more significant security reforms.
“How is this possible that so many things could have gone wrong and allowed for this to happen?” said her daughter, Candice Gatlin.
Surveillance video shows “nightmare” attack by agitated psychiatric patient
Candice said she originally got a call that her mother had “fallen” in the ER during her overnight shift as a psychiatric crisis therapist at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital on Oct. 30.
But security footage obtained by the CBS News Chicago Investigators shows it was anything but a fall.