Narrator describes suspicious patient deaths (Part 2)
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And again, an uneventful Dallas, this process would have been expected. She went into cardiac arrest and also died. It's like, oh, mother wasn't the only one. Clara Strange was a name that mom had mentioned. That was a lady that was real sweet to her. They both went into cardiac arrest within 30 minutes of each other. To have two patients die on the same day is just. The odds of that are astronomically low. Our minds are really beginning to start to inquire what was going on there, what was happening to these patients. Coming up, the inexplicable deaths continue. She had no immediate health problems and she died almost immediately. And patients witness a chilling scene. Someone walked over to a bleach solution bucket on the floor and draw up that solution into a syringe. After the unexplained deaths of Fran Metcalf and Clara Strange, family members are pressuring the DaVita clinic for answers. It was treated as a medical anomaly. Statistics are accurate to a point, but there's always the outliers. Davita was very concerned and they began a very interesting retrospective process of trying to understand what was going on. They initiate a procedure where they began saving items from cardiac incidents and reviewing the medical charts and seeing if there was any medical explanation for what caused those deaths. During the following week, five more patients suffer cardiac arrests. Thankfully, they survive, but administrators are alarmed, to say the least. DaVita sent high level nurses to the facility to try observing if there was some breakdown in procedure or some kind of process that wasn't being done right. And they weren't able to find anything that could explain these untowarded results. After analyzing their procedures, the clinic could be.