911 Audio Shows Shock, Panic After Comatose Woman Gave Birth

Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, Arizona on Jan. 4, 2019. An arrest was made in the case of a patient being raped on Jan. 23, 2019. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

PHOENIX—Panicking staff members at a long-term care facility scrambled to save a baby born to an Arizona woman in a vegetative state amid their shock to learn she was pregnant, according to dramatic 911 audio released Jan. 11.

The five minutes of audio from the Dec. 29 birth starts with a frantic nurse at the Phoenix facility yelling, “The baby’s turning blue! The baby’s turning blue!”