INVESTIGATORS have ruled out foul play in the disappearance and death of a San Francisco woman whose body was found in the stairwell of a hospital where she was a patient, a family spokesman says.
While the coroner hasn't established a cause or time of Lynne Spalding's death, investigators don't think the 57-year-old native of England was the victim of an attack, family spokesman David Perry told reporters at the hospital on Thursday.
Spalding's body was found on Tuesday in a fire exit stairwell at San Francisco General Hospital, 17 days after she went missing. She was admitted to the city-owned hospital with an infection on September 19 and reported missing from her room two days later.
Meanwhile, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced on Thursday he was hiring an independent consultant to investigate the hospital's security and patient safety protocols.
"This should not have happened, we all agree," Lee told reporters at a hospital news conference. "And we want to prevent it from ever happening again."
The investigation is separate from the probe into Spalding's death being done by the San Francisco police and from the internal investigation of hospital security measures by the San Francisco Sheriff's Department.
"A thorough independent review is required, and we will do that," Lee said. "I will say this: The city is responsible for what happened here."
Lee, who was director of public works and city administrator for San Francisco before he was elected mayor, said that on Thursday he visited the floor where Spalding had been staying, both to comfort hospital staff members and to get a sense of the layout.
Lee said the hallway that runs from Spalding's room to the fire exit stairway passes elevators, a hallway leading to another wing and a number of doors. The area right by the door to the stairwell "seems a little bit isolated. You could turn the corner and nobody would see."
He said he opened the door to the stairwell and an alarm went off as it was supposed to, but that it may have been hard to hear elsewhere on the busy floor.
Perry, the family spokesman, said Spalding's family welcomes the mayor's promise of a thorough investigation.
"At this point, the real issue is not the reason she was in the hospital but how a search by the San Francisco Sheriff's Department failed to find her," Perry said. "Obviously a more thorough search should have been done if a woman's body was here for 17 days."
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