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CBS News
6 days ago
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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.
CBS News
06-05-2025
- CBS News
Woman recovering after being shot in Rankin
Allegheny County police are looking for whoever shot a woman as she got out of her car in Rankin early Tuesday morning. She's in the hospital recovering. "This is sad, devastating, of course," said Rankin Council President Glenn Ford. Ford was a few blocks down on Fourth Avenue when he got an unexpected call from one of his cousins at 1 a.m. that his aunt had been shot. "She was in her car, and a gunman walked up and started shooting at the car," Ford said. "She got shot all over." Without providing her name, Councilman Ford said his aunt was coming from out of town and had finished parking. She was getting ready to come inside when she was shot at multiple times. He immediately went to take care of the children. "I was with them all night," Ford added. "Very sad, very shocked, traumatic, trauma." Allegheny County police say the suspect fled the scene after the shooting. Without explaining why, Ford believes this is an isolated incident, and he thinks the suspect is a man. "I don't think anyone is nervous or fearful, this is a safe community, but it is a very uneasy feeling that someone too willing to just come up on her car and shoot it is just out." The councilman said his aunt was brought to UPMC Mercy. He said that while she was shot multiple times, she's doing a lot better. "She's a fighter."
