     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED RESIDED AT THE JACKSON HEIGHTS NURSING HOME WITH THE DIAGNOSIS OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, NON-INSULIN DEPENDENCE DIABETES MELLITUS AND HYPERTENSION.  SHE ALSO HAD A STROKE ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO.  
     ON AUG. 28, 1996 SHE COMPLAINED OF STOMACH PAIN AND WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST.  SHE WAS TRANSPORTED TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BY FIRE RESCUE.  
     SHE ARRIVED IN THE E/R INTUBATED WITH CPR IN PROGRESS.  THE CARDIAC MONITOR REVEALED IDIOVENTRICULAR RHYTHM.  SHE BECAME ASYSTOLIC AND ALL RESUSCITATIVE EFFORTS WERE STOPPED AND SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 4:30 PM.
     THE DECEASED HAD BEEN TREATED AT COLUMBIA CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER AND BY DR. GONZALEZ (534-6251).  DR. GONZALEZ TREATED HER FOR CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE, CHRONIC RENAL FAILURE, DIABETES MELLITUS, HYPERTENSION, ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROME AND ATHEROSCLEROTIC HEART DISEASE.  MEDICATIONS PRESCRIBED: LANOXIN, INSULIN, GLIPIZIDE AND NITRO-DUR.