Official acknowledged that the health care system did not do enough

Advocate Aurora Health Chief Nursing Officer, Mary Beth Kingston, speaks at a panel following a screening of Bleed Out. Photo credit: Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Aurora Health says it didn't do enough for family of Wisconsin woman who had brain damage after routine surgery.

More than a decade after Steve Burrows' mother suffered life-altering brain damage following a routine surgery, the Hollywood director said he feels that "the door has opened a crack" into the hospital system where she was treated. 

That crack emerged Saturday following the screening of Burrows' 2018 HBO documentary "Bleed Out" — recounting his family's 10-year struggles to get what is now Advocate Aurora Health to explain how it happened — as part of the Milwaukee Film Festival. 

It came in a talk-back after the show, when an Aurora official acknowledged publicly that the health care system did not do enough to communicate with Judith Burrows' family about what was happening to her.