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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 agencys order suspending the Centers license, issued on Wednesday, the facilitys 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
malaise
(267,823 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)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.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,746 posts)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.