Missouri EMS Director Dies in Hospital Parking Lot

The director of Missouri's Central County Fire & Rescue died in the parking lot of a suburban St. Louis hospital after his wife says he was refused admission three times. 

Sadie Bell says she took her husband, David, to Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Peters twice during the week of January 8, and both times staff refused to admit him, instead just giving him ibuprofen. David Bell returned to work, where he had difficulty breathing and a firefighter then took him a third time. 

“I called his fireman, because one of his firemen took him," Sadie Bell told local station KMOV. "I said, 'Which hospital did you take him to?' He said, 'I went on and took him back to Barnes-Jewish because I know that’s where you all had been going.' I said, 'Oh, I just wish you wouldn’t have took him there.' He said, 'Why not?' and I said, 'Every time that we have taken him, all they did was give him Ibuprofen and sent him home, and I’m really thinking they're missing something.'"

Following the third attempt Sadie Bell says she found her husband sitting outside the hospital in a wheelchair. He then died as she attempted to get him to another hospital. 

Barnes-Jewish declined comment. Central County Fire & Rescue issued a statement on Facebook. 

For more see KMOV.