Authorities are launching a criminal investigation into the death of an  87-year-old woman who was denied CPR at a California independent living home by  a woman who identified herself to a 911 dispatcher as a nurse – but the facility  now says she isn’t one.

During the call last Tuesday, a woman who identified herself as the nurse got on the phone and told  dispatcher Tracey Halvorson she was not permitted to do CPR on the woman.

But a spokesman for Brookdale Senior Living, which owns the Glenwood Gardens  facility where the incident happened, told the Los Angeles Times that the woman  was “serving in the capacity of a resident services director, not as a  nurse."

 

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