Minnie Lee Dempsey

Minnie Lee Dempsey, an 88-year-old woman, entered the cardiac care/intensive care unit at Community Hospital of the Valleys in Perris during the night of April 5, 1981, suffering from chest pain, shortness of breath and congestive heart failure. Despite those medical problems, she was conscious and able to speak when she arrived. The night shift was being worked by registered nurse Robert Rubane Diaz and nurse Carl Chetlan. The events that unfolded during the early morning hours of April 6 would ...