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    Family says woman denied CPR in Calif. elderly home wanted no intervention

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    Family says woman denied CPR in Calif. elderly home wanted no intervention

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    Updated: Tuesday, March 5, 5:04 PM

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An elderly woman who died after a nurse at her elder home refused to provide CPR had chosen to live in a facility without medical staff and wanted to pass away without life-prolonging intervention, her family said Tuesday.

    Lorraine Bayless’ family said in a statement to the Associated Press that they do not plan to sue the independent living facility where the 87-year-old woman died last week.

    A nurse refused to cooperate with a 911 dispatcher who was pleading for someone to start CPR. Her response has prompted multiple state and local investigations at Glenwood Gardens in Bakersfield.

    Bayless did not have a “do not resuscitate” order on file at the home, city fire officials have said.

    During the dramatic 7-minute, 16-second exchange, the dispatcher insisted the nurse perform CPR or find someone willing to do it. She declined.

    Glenwood Gardens is an independent living facility, and company officials say no medical staff is employed there. The woman who identified herself as a nurse was working at the facility as a resident services director, the company said in a release.

    “We understand that the 911 tape of this event has caused concern, but our family knows that mom had full knowledge of the limitations of Glenwood Gardens and is at peace,” the statement read.

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    Cops: No charges after home's refusal to give CPR

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    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Police said Wednesday that no criminal charges will be filed after a care worker's attention-grabbing refusal to perform CPR on a resident of a Central California independent-living facility.

    The Bakersfield Police Department said it has closed its investigation into the death of Lorainne Bayless, 87, who died Feb. 26 at Glendale Gardens while a nurse there refused a 911 dispatcher's pleas to administer CPR.

    The public release of the 7-minute recording caused national outrage, fueled further when the facility's owner claimed the nurse acted appropriately.

    On Tuesday, Tennessee-based Brookdale Senior Living Inc. reversed itself and said the unidentified employee had misinterpreted the company's guidelines and was on voluntary leave while the case is investigated.

    Nonetheless, Bayless' family said it was her desire to forgo resuscitation efforts and that she died of natural causes, which her family said was her "greatest wish." The family said it has no intentions of suing the company or seeking punishment for its workers.

    "They wish no hardship on those who were witnesses," said Sonja Eddings Brown, a spokeswoman for the family. "It is natural for there to be an appropriate investigation, and if Lorraine's death helps other families to learn from it or prepare for the future, then not only was her life a great blessing, but in some small way her passing too."

    Bayless collapsed in the Glenwood Gardens dining hall. Someone called 911 on a cellphone and asked for an ambulance. Later, a woman who identified herself as a nurse got on the line and told dispatcher Tracey Halvorson she was not permitted to do CPR on the woman.

    Halvorson implored the nurse to find someone else and said she would instruct them on how to perform CPR.

    "I understand if your facility is not willing to do that," Halvorson said. "Give the phone to a passer-by. This woman is not breathing enough. She is going to die if we don't get this started, do you understand?"

    By the time paramedics arrived, Bayless had stopped breathing.

    Bakersfield fire officials who responded said Bayless did not have a "do not resuscitate" order on file at the home.

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