Hollywood Hills Rehabilitation Center in Hollywood, Fla., where a dozen residents succumbed to the heat during a hurricane, challenged the state's move to revoke its operating license, according to an article on the Sun-Sentinel website.
J. Stephen Menton, an attorney representing the state’s healthcare administration, described the hurricane-related chaos at a hearing over whether Hollywood Hills should lose its license. He argued that the nursing home failed to provide a safe environment for patients.
Officials for the nursing home said that Hollywood Hills did everything it could.
Menton said 11 of the 12 patients who died lived on the facility’s second-floor, which was notably hotter than the first floor, according to first responders and medical personnel from Memorial Regional Hospital, which is directly across the street from the nursing home.
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