Staff Was Right to Refuse to Do CPR on Elderly Woman, Facility Says
By: Stephen Crews
Updated: March 4, 2013
A home for the elderly today defended the refusal of a staffer to give CPR to an elderly woman who had collapsed on the floor and later died.
The woman 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.
Lorraine Bayless, 87, died later that day after being taken to a hospital by ambulance.
The executive director of the facility, Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield, Calif., today insisted that the staffer did the right thing.
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