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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 12:11 PM Sep 2017

Florida Nursing Home Listed Dead Resident as Resting in Bed, State Says. (med.records updated late)

A state agency has found that the Florida nursing home where eight residents died after it lost air-conditioning following Hurricane Irma “presents a danger to every person on its premises” and must close after staff at the facility failed to call 911 for its overheated patients, even as their temperatures began spiking as high as 109.9 degrees Fahrenheit.

“This facility failed its residents multiple times throughout this horrifying ordeal,” the agency secretary, Justin Senior, said in a statement. “It is unfathomable that a medical professional would not know to call 911 immediately in an emergency situation." He added, “No amount of emergency preparedness could have prevented the gross medical and criminal recklessness that occurred at this facility.”

According to the agency’s order suspending the Center’s license, issued on Wednesday, the facility’s medical records were “replete with late entries,” meaning updates that were supposed to describe medical indicators such as blood pressure and temperature at a certain point in time, but were added later.

“The facility also entered late entries into medical records claiming safe temperatures for patients,” Mr. Senior said in the statement, “while those same patients were across the street dying in the emergency room with temperatures of over 108 degrees Fahrenheit.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/us/florida-nursing-home.html?_r=0

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Florida Nursing Home Listed Dead Resident as Resting in Bed, State Says. (med.records updated late) (Original Post) Sunlei Sep 2017 OP
A ninth person died malaise Sep 2017 #1
Haven't they been hit with violations before? DK504 Sep 2017 #2
probably. & probably all employees should wear 24/7 body cams turned directly into Fedgov medicaid. Sunlei Sep 2017 #3
I'm guessing there were few or even no registered nurses on duty. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #4
USA "nursing homes" are death camps without good management. Its the management who are murderers. Sunlei Sep 2017 #5
You are painting with a very broad brush. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #6

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
3. probably. & probably all employees should wear 24/7 body cams turned directly into Fedgov medicaid.
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 12:33 PM
Sep 2017
because they can't be trusted to take even basically adequate care of people.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
4. I'm guessing there were few or even no registered nurses on duty.
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 12:49 PM
Sep 2017

And the aides normally employed in nursing homes are lucky if they are paid minimum wage. It's a difficult job that pays very badly and doesn't exactly attract the best of employees. Meanwhile, of course, the owners and upper management of the companies that run these places somehow think they're entitled to huge salaries.

So I'd be a bit slower to condemn the employees.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
6. You are painting with a very broad brush.
Thu Sep 21, 2017, 01:47 PM
Sep 2017

Not all nursing homes fit that definition.

However, I'll go out on a limb and guess that states which pride themselves on few regulations of any kind (Texas anyone? Florida anyone?) have far worse nursing homes and pre-schools and the like than those who understand some things absolutely must be regulated.

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