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Daily Mail
5 days ago
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- Daily Mail
Daughter makes terrifying discovery when she goes to visit mother at the hospital
A Pittsburgh daughter was left horrified when she discovered the woman in her mother's hospital bed was in fact a stranger. Gloria Corrado was scheduled to be transferred to University of Pittsburgh's Medical Center (UPMC) Mercy Rehab from UPMC Presbyterian on Friday. When her daughter Rae Corrado arrived to see her, she was directed to a room where she was told her mom was. 'At the nurse's station, they told me, "Your mother's here,"' Corrado told Action News 4. Corrado was then shocked to find a mystery woman wearing a wristband with her mom's name on it. 'I ran back and I said, "That's not my mom,"' she explained. But the staff were insistent that the patient was in fact Corrado's mother, because of the name on her wristband. 'I said, "I don't care what you did, it's not my mom,"' she continued. Corrado told the outlet that the woman wearing the wristband was potentially suffering from dementia, and was confused by the situation. Corrado, also stressed, was left in a state of panic looking for her mother. She contacted hospital staff at UPMC Presbyterian after praying in the chapel and was told Gloria was still awaiting her transfer at 7pm. Gloria didn't arrive to the hospital for another four hours. 'They wheel my mother in, and she says, "I've been looking for you, were you lost?" And I'm like, "No mom, you were lost. I've been looking for you,"' Corrado said. Gloria then told the harrowing recollection of waiting for her transfer to the outlet. 'I was velcroed to a stretcher. I couldn't move. I could hardly move my feet, let alone my body, for hours. And I kept thinking, "This can't be legal,"' she said through tears. 'I don't know how you lose a patient for hours,' Gloria added, recalling she was told that there had been multiple accidents accounting for the confusion and wait time. Now, Corrado is worried about the mystery woman who had been given her mother's name and in her hospital bed. 'I'm done with UPMC,' Gloria said.
CBS News
5 days ago
- General
- CBS News
Pittsburgh hospital mix-up leads to woman finding stranger in mom's hospital bed
A daughter says her mother was mistaken for a patient at a hospital in Pittsburgh last week. "I couldn't believe what was happening to me. I thought I was being punked," said Rae Corrado. Rae Corrado said she left fearing for her mother's well-being on Friday night. Last month, her mom suffered a stroke and was taken to UPMC Presbyterian. Corrado said she was told her 72-year-old mother, Glorida, arrived at UPMC Mercy to rehab from UPMC Presbyterian. However, when she went to her mother's room, the name on the wristband was her mom's, but the person wearing it was not her mom. In a one-on-one interview at the family business on Tuesday in Verona, Corrado said she was terrified. "I don't know if they were giving her pills, if they were giving her medicine," she said. "I told them that wasn't my mother. I went to the chapel and I called Presby, and they said they found my mother." Her mother arrived four hours later at 11 p.m. on Friday. Corrado said she's relieved, but she wants answers. KDKA's Mamie Bah asked, "When you spoke to them finally today, what did they say was the reason for the mix-up?" "That they had a new nurse on staff, and they were sorry for the mix-up," Corrado said. KDKA reached out to UPMC Mercy for comment, but has yet to hear back on Tuesday.
