Irma: Six dead at Florida nursing home left without power

The Hollywood Police Department is conducting a criminal investigation with the help of state, local and federal agencies. “Unfortunately, emergency services were called obviously too late”.

Yet, she said, no one came – and nursing home officials did not consider the crisis urgent enough to bring patients to the hospital across the road.

The nursing home did have a generator, but it is unclear if the generator was functional, WSVN reported.

Including the nursing home deaths, at least 25 people in Florida have died under Irma-related circumstances, and six more in SC and Georgia, many of them well after the storm had passed.

He said FPL works with Broward and all the counties in its territory to plan ahead of hurricane season and find out what facilities should get power first, which is a county decision. “When we approach her she wasn’t really crying but tears were kind of coming, she says ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe Jean, ‘” Johnson said.

Florida governor Rick Scott said he is going to “aggressively demand answers on how this tragic event took place”.

After helping to pass out food, the president took tours of several neighborhoods, where he witnessed firsthand the damage done by the hurricanes.

The account the nursing home executives provided to the Washington Post offers new details of the deteriorating conditions inside the facility. Larkin bought what was then called Hollywood Hills Nursing Home and Hollywood Pavilion Hospital in a 2015 bankruptcy auction after fallout from Medicare fraud convictions sunk both facilities.

Earlier this week, the governor said health officials had been in contact with the facility and advised staffers to contact 911 if they believed the health and safety of patients was at risk.

But most of the surviving patients were treated for “respiratory distress, dehydration and heat-related issues”, Memorial Regional Hospital’s emergency medical director, Dr.

“The loss of these individuals is a profound tragedy”, said a statement by the Florida Health Care Association, which represents 81% of Florida’s nursing centers. The facility itself has power, the individual said. Three elderly residents were found dead on Wednesday inside the sweltering facility, which had been operating with little or no air conditioning, officials said.

President Trump arrived in Fort Myers at 10:30 a.m. Thursday just behind his first tweet of the day: “Am leaving now for Florida to see our GREAT first responders and to thank the U.S. Coast Guard, FEMA etc”.

According to ABC News, FEMA is reporting that 25 percent of all homes on the Florida Keys were destroyed and 65 percent of homes suffered major damage.