Nursing home declared lady dead, but she wasn't.
By Marie Coyle
@MarieCoyle (28421)
February 3, 2023 2:21am CST
You have to wonder about nursing homes now. I hear horror stories all the time about tales of neglect, residents missing meals and medications because the homes have no help, falling and calling out for help for hours, and so forthl
The nurse practitioner declared this lady dead. She went to the funeral home, zipped into a plastic body bag. When they opened it up, she was gasping for breath! She did have dementia, but that's still traumatizing for anyone to go through.
The thought of all of this is just heartbreaking. They need to pay more and do better, maybe that's part of the solution, I don't know...just know I hurt for her and her family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/an-iowa-woman-was-declared-dead-and-sent-to-a-funeral-home-then-she-gasped-for-air-report-says/ar-AA172Wxl?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=32de431aaaa34c338b00581de059c1c1
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@LindaOHio (155957)
• United States
3 Feb 23
This is unforgivable. The nursing home should be charged with a crime.
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@LindaOHio (155957)
• United States
10 Feb 23
@porwest That's why I dread going into a nursing home.
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
13 Feb 23
@LindaOHio I hope you never have to be in one.
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@MarieCoyle (28421)
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3 Feb 23
I certainly would be very upset if it had happened to one of my loved ones. Unacceptable in every way.
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@LadyDuck (457918)
• Switzerland
4 Feb 23
@MarieCoyle 
I am not surprised, she suffered such a horrible shock.
I am not surprised, she suffered such a horrible shock.1 person likes this
@LadyDuck (457918)
• Switzerland
4 Feb 23
@MarieCoyle It is sad and it should not, but this still happens.
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@MarieCoyle (28421)
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4 Feb 23
@LadyDuck
It's hard to believe in this day and age of advanced modern medicine this type of thing even happens, but I guess it really does.
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@much2say (53960)
• Los Angeles, California
5 Feb 23
@MarieCoyle My dad was in a rehab facility - it was more like a wannabe hospital - it was completely awful. My mother in law is in a ritzy senior home but even there they have been extremely short handed.
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@MarieCoyle (28421)
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3 Feb 23
Even the good ones are terrible. Not enough staff, and many do not pay well at all, so they have a huge turnover in help.
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@MarieCoyle (28421)
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5 Feb 23
@much2say
Honestly, as much as these places charge per month, they ought to be able to pay their help very good wages, and retain their help. 6K-9K per month in some of them here, to sit alone and wait and wait to have a bit of attention. It's just not right.
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@moffittjc (118421)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Feb 23
It is shocking, but not necessarily unexpected from a nursing home. The problem is, many of these people are in these nursing homes because they could not afford to go to better quality long term care facilities. Nursing homes are understaffed and poorly run because they are grossly underfunded. Most of their income comes from governmental funds like Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security, and we all know how bad those programs are.
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@moffittjc (118421)
• Gainesville, Florida
5 Feb 23
@MarieCoyle I agree with you.
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@moffittjc (118421)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Feb 23
@MarieCoyle Sadly, more and more places are becoming like this.
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@MarieCoyle (28421)
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5 Feb 23
@moffittjc
I think it's going to come down to the way it used to be in the ''old'' days, that people are going to be cared for at home if at all possible.
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@JESSY3236 (18925)
• United States
7 Feb 23
I saw the headline of this this morning. That is so terrible.
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@MarieCoyle (28421)
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7 Feb 23
A person has to wonder, does this happen more than we know? I imagine it does.
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@Shivram59 (31745)
• India
3 Feb 23
@MarieCoyle That's so shocking.There are inefficient doctors and careless nurses.It is they who reach a conclusion without proper investigation.
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@Shivram59 (31745)
• India
4 Feb 23
@MarieCoyle Sure.Otherwise such things could not happen.
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@MarieCoyle (28421)
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4 Feb 23
@Shivram59
Well, doctors and nurses in nursing homes and hospitals all seem to be short on sleep and after all, they are human and make mistakes, so I guess we should grant them a bit of grace.
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@MarieCoyle (28421)
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3 Feb 23
I think we all want to die at home in our own bed, when our time comes.
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@porwest (78761)
• United States
10 Feb 23
One wonders how something like this could ever even happen. But it does. Among the many other horrors that go on in these places. I have always called them holding cells for people waiting to die. Families hardly ever visit or care. People are simply left to die, alone, and in less than perfect conditions.
It is always very sad to me.
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