The elderly woman was identified by KGET-TV (Channel 17) as 87-year-old Lorraine Bayless. Reports identify her at Lorraine Bayless and confirm she did not have a do-not-resuscitate order. In the tape, a different Glenwood Gardens employee said that an elderly woman had passed out in the facility’s dining room while eating. “Um, not at this time.” 
 
 On a 911 tape released by the Bakersfield Fire Department, the woman on the other end of the line told Halvorson that she was a nurse at Glenwood Gardens, a senior living facility in Bakersfield. Jeffrey Toomer, executive director at Glenwood, told Channel 17's Kelsey Thomas the actions were consistent with company policy: Staff does not attempt CPR in the independent living facility. “In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives,” the statement said, according to KGET. Bakersfield Fire Battalion Chief Anthony Galagaza said Halvorson followed protocol and that dispatchers give CPR instructions over the phone numerous times each year. “She’s going to die if we don’t get this started.… I don’t understand why you’re not willing to help this patient.” 
 
 The nurse could be heard talking to someone else at the facility. Give the phone to that passerby, that stranger … this woman is not breathing enough. “She’s yelling at me,” she said of Halvorson, “and saying we have to have one of our residents perform CPR. She is stopping breathing. Halvorson said she would talk someone through performing CPR. For several minutes, Halvorson begged the nurse to begin CPR, saying something had to be done before an ambulance arrived. “It’s a human being,” Halvorson said, speaking quickly. “Is there anybody that’s willing to help this lady and not let her die?” 
 
 The woman paused. After the nurse repeatedly refused, Halvorson asked her to find a passerby or anyone who would be willing to help. I’m feeling stressed, and I’m not going to do that, make that call.” 
 
 When Halvorson asked the nurse if she was going to let the woman die, the nurse said, “That’s why we called 911.” 
 
 After a few minutes, the nurse said the ambulance had arrived. She died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital Southwest, KGET reported. But on Tuesday, the nurse refused to give the woman CPR, saying it was against the facility’s policy for staff to do so, according to the tape. Bayless' daughter told KGET that she was a nurse and was satisfied with her mother's care at Glenwood Gardens, the station reported.
– A nurse at a senior living facility north of Los Angeles refused to administer CPR to an 87-year-old woman who was hardly breathing—and who later died, the LA Times reports. "It’s a human being," pleaded Bakersfield fire dispatcher Tracey Halvorson on a 911 tape recorded this week. "Is there anybody that’s willing to help this lady and not let her die?" The nurse paused and said, "Um, not at this time." The nurse explained that Glenwood Gardens policy was not for staff to administer CPR. Halverson urged the nurse to hand the phone to "a passerby" to help the elderly woman, so the nurse turned to someone else: "She’s yelling at me and saying we have to have one of our residents perform CPR," the nurse said of the dispatcher. "I’m feeling stressed, and I’m not going to do that, make that call." The facility's senior administer later said the nurse had acted in accordance with policy by calling 911. Hear the tape at KGET.com.