New details were released after a woman died hours after being found on the roof of a Waukegan hospital. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch Chelsea Adolphus, 28, was identified as the woman who died at Vista Medical Center East last week.
Chelsea Adolphus, 28, died on Thursday after getting locked out on the roof of the Vista Medical Center in Waukegan.
Chelsea Adolphus, a 28-year-old patient at Vista Medical Center, was found unconscious on the hospital's roof wearing only a medical gown.
Chelsea Adolphus, 28, was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday. The next day, she was found on the rooftop and had a body temperature of 50 degrees.
Adolphus, a Waukegan resident,  was found on a second-floor roof at around 8:45 a.m. Thursday, about seven hours after she was last seen in her fifth-floor hospital room.
Patient Trapped on Roof of Illinois Hospital Dies of Hypothermia, Vista East Medical Center, Chelsea Adolphus, American Healthcare Systems
Chelsea Adolphus, a patient at an Illinois medical center, was pronounced dead 14 hours after being found unresponsive on the hospital's roof. Now officials are shedding more light on what happened.
A woman found unresponsive on a roof at Vista East Medical Center in Waukegan wearing only her hospital gown died of hypothermia, according to preliminary findings released Monday by Lake County
A press conference held Monday afternoon from the Lake County Coroner had some choice words about the hospital's failures—citing consistent issues leading up to her death.
Vista Medical Center East, which lost its trauma center designation last year, is back in hot water following the death of a patient who was found on the hospital's roof.
A 28-year-old woman’s body was found on the roof of a Chicago-area hospital. Now, her family is desperate for answers explaining the circumstances that led to her death and how she got to the roof in the first place.
A family is demanding answers after a patient clad only in a hospital gown was found on a Chicago hospital roof seven hours after she went missing, and later died of hypothermia.