 In March 2011 she went to Massachusetts General Hospital to receive treatment for pain caused by a fracture , a common complication of multiple myeloma . Once there , however , doctors discovered she had come down with pneumonia . Unable to return to her New York home , Ferraro died at Massachusetts General on March 26 , 2011 . In addition to her husband and three children , who were all present , she was survived by eight grandchildren . 
