Woman pronounced dead at N.Y. nursing facility is found breathing at funeral home hours later

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The 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at 11:15 a.m. at Water’s Edge Rehab. And Nursing Center in Port Jefferson, Long Island, Suffolk County police said. He was taken to OB. Davis Funeral Home at Miller Place 1:30 p.m.

Police were unable to provide an update on the condition of the unidentified woman.

Woman pronounced dead at N.Y. nursing facility is found breathing at funeral home hours later

Water’s Edge Rehab and Nursing Center and O.B. Davis Funeral. Home did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“This is a horrific situation that has caused unnecessary. Trauma to the affected resident. And his loved ones,” said a spokesperson for the attorney general’s office. The spokeswoman did not say whether the nursing home would be charged or fined.

The incident comes more than a month. After a 66-year-old woman was mistakenly presumed dead at an Iowa hospital.

The state Department of Inspections and Appeals said a nurse at the facility checked on the woman at 6 a.m. Jan. 3. And found no signs of life. The resident was transferred to a funeral home. Where staff members found her “chest moving and gasping for air,” the department said in a report.

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