Posted on 02/03/2023 5:35:20 AM PST by Red Badger
URBANDALE, Iowa (KCCI) - A funeral home worker in Iowa got quite a shock when a woman who was thought to have died turned out to still be alive.
According to a report from the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals, a resident at the Glen Oaks Alzheimer’s Special Care Center was placed in hospice care on Dec. 28, 2022, and was pronounced dead at 6 a.m. on Jan. 3 by a licensed practical nurse.
The report says a funeral director picked up the woman, who was thought to be dead, at the facility just after 7:30 a.m. The director reported there were no signs of life, zipped up the resident in a cloth bag, and dropped her body off at a funeral home and crematory within the hour.
A funeral home employee reportedly unzipped the bag, saw the woman’s chest moving and the woman gasped for air.
Medical workers said they were able to record a pulse and breathing from the woman, but there was no eye movement and no verbal response.
The woman was taken to a hospital and then back to the nursing home where she died less than two days later with her family at her side, according to the report.
The Department of Inspections and Appeals issued two state violations to the nursing home totaling $10,000.
Inb4 Monty Python meme!
Death pronouncement by an LPN?
Is that normal practice?
For the rest of their lives whenever a loved one dies they'll ask "Are we sure?".
No...............
If there is ANY state in the US which permits 'nurses' to pronounce, it is news to me.
Unsettling and certainly unintentional. I’m curious, what is the usual practice for determining that a terminally ill hospice patient has in face, expired and is ready to be picked up by funeral home staff for previously planned organized disposition? Often these persons die at their home and hospice personnel help family with pre-arranged paperwork.
None that I know of.................
I’m feeling better
“I think she’s dead”
“No I’m not”
Mary Queen of Scots sketch
Anything goes in nursing homes. Few are good. They are cash cows.
“The woman was taken to a hospital and then back to the nursing home where she died less than two days later with her family at her side, according to the report.”
I have to wonder if the extended time in the body bag may have accelerated her passing.
I’m sure there’s a few lawyers out there that’ll be looking into it.
Some nurses in NJ can pronounce. Nursing homes a d hospice I believe.
She got better.
And yet you can’t pump your own gas because it is too dangerous?
Well excuuuuse me!
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