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Will Your Mom’s Retirement Community Give Her CPR?

Posted on 03/4/2013 by | Caregiving | Comments

Caregiving | Home & Family | Personal HealthAccording to its website, Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, Calif., says “our caring staff are trained and equipped to give aid or assistance whenever needed or requested.” They claim it offers “the best in independent living, assisted living, memory or nursing care. Glenwood Gardens is the place to be.” I guess that would be if you weren’t having a life-threatening breathing problem. I spent the day scrambling to get the facts about the now infamous incident last week at Glenwood Gardens’ …

Woman Dies After Nurse Refuses to Do CPR

Posted on 03/4/2013 by | General News | Comments

Bulletin TodayFrom The Associated Press BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A central California retirement home is defending one of its nurses who refused pleas by a 911 operator to perform CPR on an elderly woman who later died, saying the nurse was following policy. “Is there anybody that’s willing to help this lady and not let her die?” dispatcher Tracey Halvorson says on a 911 tape released by the Bakersfield Fire Department aired by several media outlets on Sunday. “Not at this …