{"id":428,"date":"2014-07-31T17:50:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T17:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2014-08-08T23:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T23:45:26","slug":"californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CPR_LOGO_3_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CPR_LOGO_3_-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"CPR_LOGO_3_\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CPR_LOGO_3_-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/CPR_LOGO_3_.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is not a joke.  Recently, in California, an elderly resident died because the independent living facility has rules that forbids any of the employees to give CPR until emergency responders arrive.  What????<\/p>\n<p>This terrible situation created a lot of ruckus for the  Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and soon Memorandum 14-01-NH was released. <\/p>\n<p>Even though the memorandum made it clear that nursing homes should use CPR when necessary, the independent living centers are governed by state law, not CMS. <\/p>\n<p>It seems that the state of Wisconsin is the only state to actually revise their CPR policies. No word from California. Before selecting an independent living facility for yourself or a loved one, you might want to investigate their CPR policy. And write your congressman or senator about changing these regulations!<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span class='st_twitter_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_linkedin_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='linkedin'><\/span><span class='st_plusone_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='plusone'><\/span><span class='st_pinterest_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='pinterest'><\/span><span class='st_email_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='email'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a joke. Recently, in California, an elderly resident died because the independent living facility has rules that forbids any of the employees to give CPR until emergency responders arrive. What???? This terrible situation created a lot of ruckus for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and soon Memorandum 14-01-NH was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><span class='st_facebook_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='facebook'><\/span><span class='st_twitter_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='twitter'><\/span><span class='st_linkedin_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='linkedin'><\/span><span class='st_plusone_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='plusone'><\/span><span class='st_pinterest_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='pinterest'><\/span><span class='st_email_hcount' st_title='California\u2019s No-CPR Law Causes Elderly Death' st_url='https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/californias-no-cpr-law-causes-elderly-death\/' displayText='email'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplecpr.com\/online-cpr-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}