Woman, 82, pronounced dead spends two hours in a body bag before funeral parlor workers realized she was ALIVE

The household of an 82-year-old pistillate are demanding answers aft she was pronounced dormant astatine a New York nursing home, but past recovered to beryllium breathing 2 hours aboriginal astatine the ceremonial location to which she had been transported.

Janet Balducci was thought to person died mid-morning connected February 4, 2023 astatine the Water's Edge Rehab and Nursing Center successful Port Jefferson connected New York's Long Island.

Balducci's assemblage was past driven from the nursing location to Casimir Funeral Home successful adjacent Miller Place, immoderate six miles away, to beryllium embalmed.

Just as funeral parlor workers were astir to woody with Balducci's assemblage they noticed the cadaver that laic earlier them was inactive live - and inactive had a pulse. 

Now the family, Balducci's 2 sons, Robert and Joseph Balducci are looking for an mentation arsenic to however the mixup occurred successful what has been termed as 'extreme and outrageous conduct' successful a suit filed by the household which is taking connected a two-pronged approach.

The sons are suing for what they allege is the premature and wrongful decease of their mother.

The household judge that unit astatine the attraction location some declared Balducci prematurely deceased but past besides contributed to her decease by failing to diagnose a heavy vein thrombosis, which they allege occurred arsenic nursing location workers stood by and did thing to assistance dainty her.

The family's lawyer accidental the woman's sons are 'horrified' by what happened and person to unrecorded with the sickening world their parent 'was placed successful a assemblage container alive.'

'I deliberation the lawsuit is much emblematic of what happens erstwhile aged radical spell into these homes,' DeNoto said. 'They don't person an advocator to support way of what's happening,' lawyer Peter DeNoto, told The Independent.

'Did the caregiver travel the criteria for determining whether idiosyncratic is dormant and did a doc corroborate what the caregiver found?' DeNoto asks. 

'There truly is nary excuse for putting a unrecorded idiosyncratic successful a assemblage container and sending them to a installation for embalming,' the lawyer told the New York Post.

Following the shocking incident, Suffolk County police, the New York State Department of Health, and the New York Attorney General's Office for probe opened a case, but the findings implicit what happened person ne'er been revealed.

In the lawsuit, the household allege those progressive of 'gross negligence, and/or recklessness.'

Balducci had been been surviving astatine her ain location until she abruptly fell implicit successful the summertime of 2022.

After being treated astatine Stony Brook University connected Long Island connected August 1, 2022, she was yet taken to the Water's Edge nursing location connected September 6. 

Although Balducci seemed to beryllium good for the archetypal fewer months of her stay, her wellness abruptly began to decline, coupled with a nonaccomplishment of appetite and an summation successful tiredness.

It was precocious connected February 3, 2023 astatine 11:52pm that a caregiver practitioner astatine the location abruptly declared the pistillate to beryllium 'unresponsive'.

Although she survived the night, by 7:30am connected February 4, the adjacent morning, Balducci was described arsenic being 'in furniture and comfortable.'

But 4 hours later, an introduction connected her illustration states that she had 'expired astatine 11:15am'.

Arrangements were past made to person her transported to a ceremonial location and her assemblage was placed into a sealed assemblage bag.

It was different 2 hours earlier the workers astatine the Casimir Funeral Home unzipped the container whereupon the workers noted she 'was inactive breathing and had a pulse.' 

Paramedics were instantly summoned and she was rushed to the adjacent John T. Mather Memorial Hospital. 

When Balducci arrived astatine the hospital, she was 'noted to beryllium unresponsive and placed on palliative attraction and held connected until 5:20am connected February 5, 2023. At that time, she passed', the household layer, DeNoto, explained. 

Now that Balducci's sons person filed their archetypal complaint, the household are waiting for some 'the installation and the ceremonial location to service answers' from the radical who were contiguous astatine some facilities.

They anticipation to beryllium capable to recognize what happened, and however specified mistakes were made. 

A transgression probe into the full occurrence is besides inactive ongoing. 

'There was cipher determination advocating for her arsenic an aged person,' DeNoto said. 'She was decidedly astatine the extremity stages of her life, unfortunately. That happens to each of us. But present it seems that it was excessively casual to accidental she is not live anymore let's nonstop her to a facility.' 

Despite the Water's Edge installation boasting astir offering 'outstanding abbreviated word and subacute care' and having the 'first-class amenities of the finest boutique hotels', it has person a distinctly mean people successful the latest New York State Department of Health ratings, with 3 retired of 5 stars

The location has besides been slapped with $22,000 successful fines successful the past 12 years.

There person been a bid of incidents including 1 successful which a diligent was near retired successful the blistery prima for implicit an hr starring to dehydration and vigor exhaustion, a 2nd successful which a diligent fell onto the level of their room, and a 3rd successful which a patient's  bedsores were near untreated.