2. Medical services denied to Delco inmate 18 hours before suicide attempt in 2022
By Todd Shepherd
“Pam Langworthy says she’s at peace with the 2022 death of her son, Patrick. But she also has questions — some things don’t seem to add up or sit well. All of that is true for her at the same time.
With numerous scrapes with police in his history, Patrick was admitted to the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County on June 8 for a parole violation.
Patrick Langworthy died by suicide in June 2022. According to an incident report obtained by Broad + Liberty through a source, at about 1:47 p.m. on the afternoon of June 15, a correctional officer at Delco’s George W. Hill Correctional Facility found Langworthy “sitting on the cell floor with a ripped bed sheet around his neck and tied to the bottom bunk.”
Why It Matters. “In an email, Warden Laura Williams is inquiring with the administrator for Wellpath, the company that provides medical services to the prison. The email subject line is “Interruption of Services,” and the email contains a spreadsheet attachments of the same name. The spreadsheet notes that for Langworthy, there was a request for some kind of medical services or intervention at about 8:45 p.m. on the 14th — or about sixteen to seventeen hours before his suicide attempt.”
Quotable. “It’s very confusing when you look at that and if his medical condition was bad enough that they wanted him to get some medical treatment for whatever reason – it just seems odd to me,” Pam said.”
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