Flowers fill ‘That BBQ Place’ reopening as community honors victimsBreast Cancer treatment is evolving; Same day mastectomies are becoming more common
FILE: The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills as patients are evacuated after a loss of air conditioning due to Hurricane Irma on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP) HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) Police say a ninth person has died nearly a week after the evacuation of a Florida nursing home that Hurricane Irma left without air conditioning. Hollywood Police Department spokesman Miranda Grossman says in a news release that a 93-year-old man who had been a patient at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills died Tuesday. Facility staff began calling 911 on Sept. 12, three days after Irma hit. By the next morning, rescue officials realized how bad the situation was at the center, which had operated for days without air conditioning and made the rooms stiflingly hot. Eight people died and 145 patients had to be moved out of the facility, many of them on stretchers or in wheelchairs. The patients were not timely evacuated to the air-conditioned hospital located across the street, according to the Agency for Health Care Administration. These patients ended up at the hospital with body temperatures ranging from 107 degrees Fahrenheit to 109.9 degrees Fahrenheit. An emergency suspension order on the license of the rehabilitation center’s license was issued Wednesday afternoon, the AHCA said. The agency issued a temporary moratorium on admissions for the facility on Sept. 13, the AHCA said. The AHCA, the Hollywood Police Department and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is conducting a criminal investigation.