     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS A RESIDENT AT THE "HEBREW HOME FOR THE AGED" LOCATED AT 320 COLLINS AVENUE ON MIAMI BEACH.
     
     JULY 14, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS ADMITTED TO SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL AND DIAGNOSED WITH BILATERAL PNEUMONIA AND SYNCOPE AFTER BEING FOUND UNRESPONSIVE AT THE HEBREW HOME. HE WAS TREATED AND DISCHARGED ON JULY 22, 1996.
     
     JULY 23, 1996 HE WAS RE-ADMITTED TO SOUTH SHORE AFTER NURSING STAFF FOUND THAT HIS LEG WAS ROTATED AND HIS LEFT HIP AREA HAD AN ECCHYMOSIS AREA. DIAGNOSIS WAS FRACTURED LEFT HIP, ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA, SEPSIS, SEPTIC SHOCK, RENAL FAILURE, HEART FAILURE AND LUNG FAILURE. WHITE COUNT ON ADMISSION WAS 32,000. HIS PHYSICIAN THOUGHT THAT HE MAY HAVE ASPIRATED AT THE NURSING HOME AND THAT HIS ORIGINAL BOUT OF PNEUMONIA WAS NOT FULLY HEALED OR THAT HE MAY HAVE SUFFERED A CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT.
     48-72 HOURS AFTER ADMISSION HE WAS INTUBATED AND UNDERWENT DIALYSIS TREATMENTS TO RELIEVE FLUID BUILD-UP. HIS CONDITION CONTINUED TO DETERIORATE AND HE CODED SEVERAL TIMES UNTIL JULY 28, 1996 WHEN HE WENT INTO IDIOVENTRICULAR RHYTHM AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 6:36 A.M..

     DECEASED HAD PAST MEDICAL HISTORY OF CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT AND HIS EEG REVEALED SEIZURES, HOWEVER HE NEVER SEIZED PHYSICALLY. DECEASED HAD NO FAMILY MEMBERS AND HAD MADE PRE-ARRANGED FUNERAL SERVICES WITH RUBIN-ZILBERT FUNERAL HOME.