McKnight’s Long Term Care writer Marty Stempniak reports today that nearly a year after Hurricane Irma slammed the state of Florida, many nursing homes are still working to comply with emergency power rules.
About 75% of the state’s 684 nursing homes received an extension from the June 1 deadline to have an emergency-power plan in place, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. All facilities, however, are still considered compliant because those extensions require homes to keep temps at or below 81 degrees for at least 96 hours after a power loss through temporary means.
Seems to us that many LTCs have failed to assure they are protecting their patients. The CMS Emergency Preparedness Rule went into effect nearly two years ago, in November of 2016, and operators have had plenty of time to keep up.
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