Refusal to Give CPR to Elderly Woman Probed by Police

[Purveyor]

By KAREN KELLER
March 4, 2013

Police launched an investigation today into the refusal by a staffer at a home for the elderly to perform CPR on an 87-year-old woman who collapsed on the floor and later died.

The staffer was identified today as a resident services director, not a nurse as previously reported. The woman repeatedly rebuffed pleas from the 911 dispatcher during a seven minute call on Feb. 26 to give the woman CPR or to ask someone else to do it.

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The incident occurred at Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, Calif., and today the police said they were looking into what occurred during the phone call with the dispatcher.

"The Bakersfield Police Department is currently investigating the incident to determine if there is any criminal wrongdoing in the matter," Bakersfield Police Department spokesperson Michaela Beard said.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/refusal-give-cpr-elderly-woman-probed-police/story?id=18648941

[Tx4obama]

1. This isn't going to go anywhere. The daughter is a nurse and she knew the facility did not give CPR

... to the residents in that section of the building.

Also, the said on the news that the 'full' tape of the 911 tells a clearer story of the incident.

[okwmember]

5. I don't know what her official title is, but on the tape she identifies herself as a nurse.

[DURHAM D]

2. This has already been posted multiple times.

It is a non-story.

[Purveyor]

3. This 'non-story' was the leading story on NBC evening news and this is the first one I've found

that mentioned 'police involvement'.

[DURHAM D]

4. If there is criminal wrong doing it will be on the part of the

911 dispatcher. Among other things she was giving improper medical advice if the woman was still breathing.