URBANDALE, Iowa - A report from the Iowa Department of Inspections and appeals says a resident at Glen Oaks Alzheimer's Special Care Center was placed in hospice care on December 28 and pronounced dead at 6 a.m., January 3, by a licensed practical nurse.
The DIA report says a funeral director picked up the woman -- who was thought to be dead -- at the Urbandale facility just after 7:30 a.m., reported there were no signs of life, zipped up the resident in a cloth bag, and dropped her body off at the Ankeny funeral home and crematory within the hour.
The DIA report says a funeral home employee unzipped the bag, saw the woman's chest moving -- and then she gasped for air.
That's the call from an EMS worker after a funeral home employee called 9-1-1.
The state's report says they were able to record a pulse and breathing, but there was no eye movement and no verbal response.
The woman was taken to a hospital and then back to the nursing home, were she died less than two days later with her family at her side, according to the report.
