     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: ON OCT. 2, 1996 THE DECEASED WAS FOUND UNRESPONSIVE ON THE FLOOR OF HER HOME WITH TRAUMA TO THE LEFT SIDE OF HER HEAD AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO COLUMBIA MIAMI HEART INSTITUTE BY FIRE RESCUE.
     ACCORDING TO HOSPITAL RECORDS, THE DECEASED REQUIRED URGENT ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION AND PLACED ON VENTILATOR.  A CT BRAIN SCAN REVEALED A LARGE SUBDURAL HEMATOMA.  SHE WAS COMATOSE AND REMAINED SO DURING THE COURSE OF HER  HOSPITALIZATION.  THE DECEASED HAD A LIVING WILL, MAKING HER A DO NOT RESUSCITATE PATIENT, AND ALONG WITH HER ADVANCED AGE, SURGERY WAS NOT RECOMMENDED.  SHE WAS THEN  RECOMMENDED FOR HOSPICE CARE.  HOWEVER, ON OCT. 5, 1996 ABOUT 1:56 AM SHE LOST ALL VITAL SIGNS AND WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD.
     THE DECEASED WAS UNDER THE CARE OF DR. SHEIB (674-3088) WITH A HISTORY OF CHRONIC ATRIAL DYSRHYTMIAS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION.  HE HAD PRESCRIBED COUMADIN AND LANOXIN.  IN JAN. 96 SHE HAD AN ACUTE CEREBRAL EVENT AND RECURRENT TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACKS RECENTLY.
     DR. SHCEIB FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE DECEASED WAS REACHING FOR A GLASS OF WATER WHEN SHE FELL OUT OF BED AND THERE WAS  NO FOUL PLAY INVOLVED.