     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION,  THE DECEASED REPORTEDLY WAS A RESIDENT AT "LA POSADA NURSING HOME" LOCATED AT 5271 S.W. 8TH STREET, IN MIAMI.   ON AUGUST 23,1996, A.M., SHE BEGAN TO EXPERIENCE DIFFICULTY BREATHING.  FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED AND UPON THEIR ARRIVAL FOUND THE DECEASED EXPIRED AT 9:20 AM.  
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     POLICE RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND VIEWED THE DECEASED SUPINE ON BED, WITH NO VISIBLE SIGNS OF TRAUMA. SHE REPORTEDLY HAD HISTORY OF DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE OF CERVICAL SPINE, RECTAL BLEEDING, GASTRITIS, COLONIC MALFORMATION, GLAUCOMA, AND DEPRESSION. HER PHYSICIAN WAS OUT OF TOWN AND THE COVERING DOCTOR DID NOT KNOW HER MEDICAL HISTORY.  DR. FELIX GONZALEZ HAD DIAGNOSED DECEASED WITH LUPUS AND WAS WILLING TO SIGN THE CERTIFICATE, BUT DECLINED AFTER TESTS FOR LUPUS DONE AT THE NURSING HOME PROVED NEGATIVE. LAST HOSPITALIZED AT CORAL GABLES HOSPITAL ON AUGUST/1996. FINAL DIAGNOSES:  ACUTE GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE,  IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA, ANEMIA OF BLOOD LOSS, ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE, PRERENAL AZOTEMIA, URINARY TRACT INFECTION, CHRONIC PAIN, DEPRESSION.     LAST ADMITTED AT KENDALL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ON MARCH/1996.  DISCHARGE DIAGNOSIS:  SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS. HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS. DIFFUSE GASTROENTERITIS. HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY, MEDICALLY CONTROLLED.