Report says woman's death at hospital was likely preventable

Los Angeles County officials have acknowledged for the first timethat a woman who died shortly after writhing in pain for nearly anhour on the waiting room floor of Martin Luther King Jr.-HarborMedical Center could have been saved if she had been properlytreated.

Edith Rodriguez was captured on security videotape as a janitormopped around her and a triage nurse dismissed her complaints in theearly morning of May 9, 2007. Her death helped precipitate theclosure of the hospital's emergency room and inpatient care afterfederal regulators determined that staffers had failed to deliver aminimum standard of care.

The 43-year-old woman's boyfriend, who had accompanied her …