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"They do not bind states, and they do not bind individual governors and they will not bind the state of Florida. So let me just be very, very clear. Our vaccines will be targeted to our elderly population." Florida provides outbreak data for resident cases and staff cases separately. Florida’s outbreak data for cases reflects information available for current residents and staff with cases as of yesterday’s date. Florida combines staff and resident data when reporting cumulative cases and deaths. "The facility administrator and the nurses ... were calling the governor himself, who was posting his cell phone number on television saying for people to call if there was an emergency," Frankel said. "They were calling from day one looking for the air conditioning to be rehooked up, and during that time, they continued to tend to the patients."
When the woman stopped breathing, Mody said, he pressed the “call bell” button in his room to summon the staff. Wednesday on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of a fellow resident at the Gold Choice Assisted Living & Memory Care nursing home in Palm Coast, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. On Monday afternoon, Sharief told residents that there were still major roadways blocked by debris or flooding, but things would be better on Tuesday. 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.
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He told Local10 that a fuse needed to cool the unit popped out and he was trying to get a hold of Florida Power & Electric to get it fixed. Long told Local10 that it would only take about a half hour to fix it. "Every month it seems to be a nursing home nightmare, and the nightmare continues to worsen," Lee said.
Actions the facility is taking to protect them and their loved ones, including visitor restrictions. Educate both facility-based and consultant personnel (e.g., wound care, podiatry, barber) and volunteers. Including consultants is important because they often provide care in multiple facilities and can be exposed to or serve as a source of pathogen transmission. Officials wrote that the victim had “diminished mental capacity” that caused her to routinely enter the rooms of other residents at the nursing home and try to lie in bed with them.
Florida leads nation in nursing home deaths
“We are fully cooperating with all authorities and regulators to assess what went wrong and to ensure our other residents are cared for,” Carballo said. Paramedics told investigators the man had rigor mortis, meaning he had been dead for hours, undercutting the staff’s contention they monitored patients closely. The report says security video shows no one visited the man for seven hours. On Sept. 13, paramedics returned to treat an elderly woman in cardiac arrest, with one telling investigators the home’s temperature was “ungodly hot.” The woman’s temperature was 107 and so was another person’s. The percent of new resident cases quadrupled during the same time period, from 12.6 to 61%, three times the national average of 20%.
While he acknowledged the move would increase COVID-19 cases, DeSantis said the need for visitation could no longer be ignored. The administration, though, in the last month has reversed policies such as mandatory testing of all long-term care staff members and the use of specific facilities that cared for and isolated nursing-home residents with COVID-19. Long-term care facilities can use this tool to self-assess the strengths and weaknesses of current preparedness efforts. This checklist does not describe mandatory requirements or standards; rather, it highlights important areas to review to prepare for the possibility of residents with COVID-19. One of the newly reported deaths, 90-year-old Cecilia Franco, was the wife of another resident, Miguel Antonio Franco, who died in the week following the hurricane.
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Also, the report pointed to other indications of continuing struggles with COVID-19 in the state’s nursing homes, including lagging vaccination rates of workers and residents. Lorida led the nation in nursing home resident and staff deaths in the four weeks ending Aug. 22, the American Association of Retired People reported Wednesday in a “four-week snapshot” analysis. The AARP online site, which looks at nursing-home data for four weeks ending Sept. 20, shows that 1.38 of every 200 nursing home residents in Florida died from COVID-19. Nationally, about one out of every 200 nursing home residents died from COVID-19. For example, the state could resume collecting and distributing to the public data on nursing homes and long-term care facilities on a daily basis. Source data for cumulative staff/resident cases is in the “County Report” on FL’s COVID-19 page.
"If they find that anyone wasn't acting in the best interests of the patients, we will hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law," Scott said in a statement. The were identified by the Broward County medical examiner as Gail Nova, 70; Estella Hendricks, 71; Carolyn Eatherly, 78; Betty Hibbard, 84; Bobby Owens, 84; Miguel Antonio Franco, 92; Manuel Mario Medieta, 96; and Albertina Vega, 99. “This is an isolated incident and is not representative of the larger long term care profession in Florida,” the association said in a statement.
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He emphasized that point Tuesday during a news conference in The Villages, Florida's largest retirement community. The three employees, including two nurses, turned themselves in after arrest warrants were issued over the weekend. Four people were issued warrants, defense attorneys David Frankel and Lawrence Hashish told NBC News. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott ordered an emergency moratorium on Wednesday to prevent the facility from admitting new patients. In an internet chatroom managers used to communicate, the director of housekeeping wrote, “the patients don’t look good.” The report says Carballo never responded but did order the installation of large fans. Employees tried to useportable air conditionersto keep the patients cool, but they were not properly installed.
Josh Levy, the mayor of Hollywood, said he urged mayors and county commissioners across the state to urge residents to check on elderly neighbors in their communities. He said 32,000 homes and businesses in Hollywood were still without power. Sanchez said police have opened a criminal investigation into the deaths.
The latest local, regional and national news events of the morning are presented by the Local 10 News Team along with updated sports, weather and traffic. AARP Florida spokesman Dave Bruns said Florida is the "grayest" state in the nation. One in five residents is age 65 or older, or 20.4 percent of the population, compared to 13.4 percent nationally.
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