Florida Nursing Home’s Irma Toll: 8 Dead After AC Knocked Out

Authorities evacuated more than 100 other people from the facility, the Rehabilitation Centre at Hollywood Hills, including bringing some to nearby hospitals.

The Agency for Health Care Administration and the Department of Children & Families have begun their own investigations.

Officials initially said as many as 158 people had been moved from the center; on Thursday, police clarified that 145 patients were sent to Memorial Regional Hospital – 141 from the center and four from an adjoining facility.

Local law enforcement said the nursing home had been without air conditioning for days following the storm, which made landfall last weekend.

Meanwhile, Florida made urgent efforts to protect its vulnerable elderly residents.

There are now no patients at the center. North Carolina reported its first Irma death on Friday, saying a man there also had died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator.

The complaint asks for the preservation of all video and photographs taken in the nursing home from September 8, the day before South Florida was expected to start experiencing increased winds from Hurricane Irma, to September 13.

The center said the hurricane knocked out a transformer that powered the air conditioning.

How many staff members stayed at the facility – and did that number include doctors? He didn’t answer questions regarding whether a generator was running inside the place.

But it was not until multiple patients began experiencing health emergencies, which promoted the evacuation of the center, that the utility company arrived to make the fix, the nursing home said.

Florida’s governor called on first responders Wednesday to check health care facilities statewide after eight nursing home patients died in the wake of Hurricane Irma.

Frustrations grew Wednesday along a two-lane stretch of highway through the Florida Keys as disappointed residents were told it wasn’t safe enough for them to return home. They had them in the hall with little clothing and portable air conditions and fans.

To recover restoration costs, FPL files with state regulators and, if approved, adds a storm surcharge on the monthly bills of its almost 5 million customers.

– Florida has reported 26 deaths, officials have said.

The facility’s air-conditioning system went out Sunday, and several residents suffered respiratory or cardiac distress early Wednesday, according to a state moratorium on admissions issued Wednesday evening. Officials also contacted the power provider, the state said. The Sun-Sentinel reports that Michel “has history of fraud charges”.

Trump, standing alongside Scott and other Florida officials, said he knows that “at a certain point it ends for you and we can’t let it end”.

The case was settled in 2006 for $15.4 million. Then we shift to the critical infrastructure facilities, so water treatment facilities, fire stations, police, hospitals, all of those are critical facilities.

That’s 62 percent of the state’s power customers, and there are several counties where 80-90 percent of customers are without power.

The number of people without electricity in the steamy late-summer heat was down to 6.8 million. Drinking water and power were cut off, all three of the islands’ hospitals were closed, and gasoline was extremely limited.