39 of the residents of that Hollywood Hills Nursing Home were admitted to hospital

[malaise]

We know eight are dead.
The home has been closed and is under investigation.

Other nursing homes have been or are being evacuated.

[MineralMan]

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]

2. Indeed

[Orrex]

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.

[Wellstone ruled]

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]

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]

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.