Dead Woman Had Temp of 109.9 in Nursing Home Tragedy

As far as euphemisms go, "resting in bed" is an extreme one. 

That's how a staffer at the Florida nursing home where eight people died after Hurricane Irma knocked out its air-conditioning described an 84-year-old in a entry made in the patient's log—after the patient had died. The New York Times reports on the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration's investigation into the events of Sept. 13 at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills. 

The agency on Wednesday suspended the facility's license, noting its staff neither called 911 nor moved patients to an adjacent air-conditioned hospital as the residents' temperatures rose to astronomical levels. The agency's statement puts it bluntly: This facility "presents a danger to every person on its premises."

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