A deputy said the woman was transported from Waverly to the funeral home and was thought to be dead. Funeral home personnel began performing CPR, Lincoln Fire and Rescue said.
Constance Glantz, 74, of Lincoln, Neb., was pronounced dead in a nursing home. A funeral home employee preparing her body realized that she was breathing.
A Nebraska funeral home discovered that a 74-year-old hospice patient who was declared dead by her nursing home two hours earlier was actually still alive, so workers started CPR and she was rushed to a hospital, where she died hours later.
The woman was receiving hospice care when she was pronounced dead but was discovered breathing hours later by a funeral home employee, authorities said.
By Susannah Cullinane and Joe Sutton, CNN (CNN) — When a Nebraska woman in a nursing home was declared dead by staff members there on Monday, authorities were not called. She had been in hospice care, the last step before death for many, so she didn’t meet the guidelines that would require a coroner…
A 74-year-old woman pronounced dead at a Nebraska nursing home was found to be alive and breathing when she arrived at the local funeral parlor, police said.
A woman and hospice patient who was declared dead at a Nebraska nursing home was actually still alive, as funeral home workers discovered Monday morning.
A Nebraska funeral home discovered that a 74-year-old hospice patient who was declared dead by her nursing home two hours earlier was actually still alive.
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