CPR can crack ribs and only succeeds longterm in restarting a heart 20% of the time --

[HiPointDem]

116. Completely false, though you keep repeating it.

According to Joseph Rodrigues, California’s long-term care ombudsmen, “there’s no regulatory requirement for them [Glenwood Gardens] to provide CPR because they are not licensed to offer skilled or medical services to their residents. But from a moral perspective? It’s hard to say. I wouldn’t want to speculate without knowing the details.”

(i.e. they are not *required* to offer CPR, which is a different matter from them being *forbidden* to offer CPR).

A just-breaking statement released by the California Assisted Living Association (CALA) said, “Currently in California, regulations do not address CPR training or administration in independent living communities. While CALA’s membership is comprised of Assisted Living communities, not independent living communities, this incident is prompting providers to review their practices assuring appropriate emergency response procedures are in place.”

(i.e. the law does not *address* CPR = not forbidden or required).

http://blog.aarp.org/2013/03/04/sally-abrahms-nurse-who-refused-to-perform-cpr-on-independent-living-resident/

And the fact that other facilities in California *do* offer CPR to people in independent living pretty much demonstrates that it's not *forbidden by law,* as you keep repeating.


Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the California Board of Registered Nursing, said the question of responsibility depends on whether the woman on the 911 call is indeed a licensed nurse working in the capacity of a nurse.

Circumstances that could allow a medical professional to forgo performing CPR include cases in which life-saving resuscitation could expose the care provider to harm — or when there’s a “do not resuscitate” order on file.

But generally, “a nurse in that situation must perform CPR” or provide other appropriate medical care, Heimerich said.

The requirement to render aid is less clear in cases in which a trained nurse is hired to function in a different capacity. A nurse or other medical professional working as an administrator, for example, may not be held to the same standard, professionally, he said.

But Heimerich acknowledged there are professional standards, and then there are human ethics, the need to simply do the right thing.

http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x738926924/Police-probe-Glenwood-Gardens-death


Kern County’s long-term care ombudsman, Nona Tolentino, said people trying to choose a retirement home for their family member could easily get the impression that all residents of Glenwood Gardens get the same care — which she said is not the case.

“This is why I encourage people to be savvy consumers in looking for” a long-term care facility, Tolentino said, adding that she was “appalled” that no one would provide CPR to Bayless.

http://www.bakersfieldcalifornian.com/local/x738926924/Police-probe-Glenwood-Gardens-death


It has nothing to do with state law. It was the policy of this CORPORATION.