Presumed dead woman found gasping in body bag at Iowa funeral home
A hospice center in Iowa was fined $10,000 after it mistakenly assumed a woman had died hours before she was discovered gasping inside a body bag at a funeral home, authorities said.A nurse at the Glen Oaks Alzheimer's Special Care Center in Urbandale determined that the 66-year-old woman had died on January 3 and that the resident was taken to a funeral home, the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals said in a report. issued on Wednesday. . The woman, who has not been publicly identified, entered hospice care on December 28 due to "senile degeneration of the brain," the…
