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WASHINGTON — <\/span>Three former employees of a privately operated psychiatric hospital in the nation’s capital have been charged with criminal negligence in the death of a patient, the city’s top federal prosecutor said Wednesday.<\/p>\n The three former employees of the Psychiatric Institute of Washington failed to provide adequate medical care to the patient before he died nearly six years ago, their indictment alleges. <\/p>\n The indictment identifies the 58-year-old patient only by his initials, but a wrongful death lawsuit identifies him as Gary Wilson, a man with a heart condition who was admitted to the facility on April 13, 2020. He died 13 days later, on the afternoon of April 26.<\/p>\n Nelson Kuma, 37, Richard Hounnou, 45, and Norma Munoz-Bent, 68, all of Maryland, were indicted on criminal negligence charges. The indictment accuses them of failing to properly assess or treat the patient with any lifesaving measures for at least 21 minutes.<\/p>\n U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said at a news conference<\/a> that the defendants “violated the most basic standard of medical care.”<\/p>\n \u201cThis trio did nothing to help this patient,\u201d Pirro told reporters. \u201cThis man didn’t have a chance there. He was left to die.\u201d<\/p>\n Wilson’s death was cited in an advocacy group’s 2021 report on conditions at the facility where he died. The Disability Rights DC said it found \u201cvery disturbing specific and systemic failures\u201d at the institute, The Washington Post reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n