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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Josh Funk

Nebraska funeral home discovers hospice patient was still alive hours after being declared dead

LINCOLN JOURNAL STAR

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 in hospice care at the The Mulberry nursing home in the Lincoln suburb of Waverly before she was declared dead Monday morning, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.

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