By: Eileen Williamson, MSN, RN
September 25th 2017
September 25th 2017
Several days after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc across Florida, nine residents from one of its nursing homes died.
The deaths were not caused by flooding, high winds or a building collapse, but by room temperatures that went from hot to oppressive and finally to fatal after a transformer powering their cooling system failed. The first question that came to my mind was, “How could this have happened?” READ MORE...
The deaths were not caused by flooding, high winds or a building collapse, but by room temperatures that went from hot to oppressive and finally to fatal after a transformer powering their cooling system failed. The first question that came to my mind was, “How could this have happened?” READ MORE...