A hospice facility in Iowa has been fined $10,000 after mistakenly presuming a woman dead hours before she was discovered gasping for air inside a body bag at a funeral home, officials say.
A hospice facility in Iowa has been fined $10,000 after it mistakenly presumed a woman dead hours before she was discovered gasping for air inside a body bag at a funeral home, officials said.
At 6 a.m. Jan. 3, a nurse checked on the patient and found no signs of life, according to the report.Her"mouth was open, her eyes were fixed, and there were no breath sounds," the report says, adding that a nurse was unable to locate the woman's pulse using her stethoscope. When EMS personnel arrived, they recorded the woman's pulse and noted she had no eye movement or verbal, vocal or motor response, according to the report.
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