In February 2023, Janet Balducci was at Water’s Edge Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Port Jefferson, Long Island, when a nurse pronounced her dead.
Baldcucci was even put in a body bag for embalming, but astonishingly, she had not passed away.
An unexpected event occurred when the 82-year-old arrived at the Casimir Funeral Home in Miller Place, New York.
Following a call from the funeral home to the emergency services, Balducci was transported to the hospital.
The old woman’s sons, Robert and Joseph Balducci, are suing the funeral house and the nursing home for wrongful death and negligence.
Nonetheless, they are likely to seek a substantial settlement from the lawsuit.
“Did the nurse follow the criteria for determining whether somebody is dead and did a doctor confirm what the nurse found?” the lawyer said as to one question the family want answering.
The lawyer added: “There really is no excuse for putting a live person in a body bag and sending them to a facility for embalming.”
“That happens to all of us. But here it seems that it was too easy to say she is not alive anymore let’s send her to a facility.”
Balducci was admitted to Water’s Edge in September 2022.
Furthermore, it alleges that by neglecting to properly diagnose or treat her deep vein thrombosis (DVT), they had a role in her demise.
DeNoto added to the New York Post: “It really is a sad case. The end game is to send a message that you have to take your job seriously and you have to treat human beings with dignity and respect.”
