Hospital Waits a Week to Notify Family of a Woman's Death

The family of an elderly Kensington woman says New York Community Hospital told them of their mother's death seven days after she passed. 89-year-old Catherina Hawa's son, Michael, tells the Daily News that he is distraught:

Hawa’s corpse remained unclaimed for over a week, until an employee of a funeral home Michael hired picked it up on Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day.

“The thought that she laid there cold and dead — it’s a horror,” said Michael, 64, of Morrisville, Pa. “It’s just too sad to digest.”