An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead in a New York nursing center only to be found hours later 'gasping for air' by staff members at a funeral home. This comes after another woman was mistakenly presumed dead at an Iowa hospice facility in January.
A woman was pronounced dead in a New York nursing home Saturday morning only to be discovered breathing nearly three hours later, police said.
The 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at Water’s Edge Rehab and Nursing Center at Port Jefferson on Long Island at 11:15 a.m., according to the Suffolk County Police Department. She was taken to O.B. Davis Funeral Home in Miller Place at 1:30 p.m. Funeral home staff saw the woman breathing at 2:09 p.m., police said, adding she was taken to a hospital.Water’s Edge Rehab and Nursing Center and O.B. Davis Funeral Home did not immediately respond to requests for comment."This is an awful situation that has caused unnecessary trauma for the impacted resident and her loved ones," a spokesperson for the AG's office told NBC News.
The spokesperson did not say if the nursing home would be charged or fined in connection with the incident.a 66-year-old woman at an Iowa hospice facility was mistakenly presumed deadThe state's Department of Inspections and Appeals said a nurse at the facility checked on the woman at 6 a.m. Jan. 3 and found no signs of life.
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