Florida nursing homes get more time to install mandated generators
About 300 nursing homes across the state have been given another six months to meet a state mandate that they have generators and fuel that can help keep buildings cool.
Agency for Health Care Administration spokeswoman Mallory McManus said that before agreeing to temporarily waive the requirement, the state reviewed the nursing homes to ensure that they had “made every effort to attain compliance.”
“We will stop at nothing to ensure these facilities are appropriately protecting Florida patients,” McManus said in a statement to The News Service of Florida.
The backup power requirement came after residents of a Broward County nursing home died following Hurricane Irma in 2017. The hurricane knocked out the facility’s air-conditioning system, creating sweltering conditions.
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