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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums39 of the residents of that Hollywood Hills Nursing Home were admitted to hospital
We know eight are dead.
The home has been closed and is under investigation.
Other nursing homes have been or are being evacuated.
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39 of the residents of that Hollywood Hills Nursing Home were admitted to hospital (Original Post)
malaise
Sep 2017
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MineralMan
(146,248 posts)1. That was a horror story.
Nursing home patients have zero power or clout. They're easily ignored, and this tragedy is due to that. Worst of all, there was a hospital with AC right across the street. Terrible!
malaise
(268,659 posts)2. Indeed
Orrex
(63,168 posts)6. NPR ran a piece on this earlier today
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/14/550892048/probe-launched-into-nursing-home-deaths-after-irma-related-power-outage
Democratic State Senator Gary Farmer laid the blame squarely on the long-running and well-funded push for deregulation and the trend toward using nursing homes as profit-generating machines.
As he notes, when you remove accountability, you remove responsibility. Florida (and Texas, while we're at it) have gone to great lengths to eliminate corporate accountability, and this is where we end up.
Granted, one would hope that some individual along the way would step up to help before we see a horror like this one, but these elderly victims were set up for disaster long before Irma came along.
Democratic State Senator Gary Farmer laid the blame squarely on the long-running and well-funded push for deregulation and the trend toward using nursing homes as profit-generating machines.
As he notes, when you remove accountability, you remove responsibility. Florida (and Texas, while we're at it) have gone to great lengths to eliminate corporate accountability, and this is where we end up.
Granted, one would hope that some individual along the way would step up to help before we see a horror like this one, but these elderly victims were set up for disaster long before Irma came along.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Seems to me
The present owner is facing a Jail term for Medicaid Fraud and is free pending a appeal. Sounds like the Governor of the same State.
malaise
(268,659 posts)4. How ironic that the governor gave the order to shut them down
They should have shut the prison door on him years ago
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)5. Convicted Felon as Governor,
Convicted Felon still running a Nursing Home. Until one of these corrupt Nursing Home owners goes to Prison for a long stretch,nothing changes.