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A judge has acquitted the Hollywood nursing home administrator accused of manslaughter in the deaths of 12 patients in 2017 following Hurricane Irma.
The trial for a former Hollywood nursing home administrator continued on Thursday following the deaths of 12 patients in 2017 following the impact of Hurricane Irma.
We are now seeing surveillance video inside the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills that shows paramedics responding to treat patients in the facility after power went out following Hurricane Irma in 2017.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Prosecutors filed charges in the deaths of nine Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills residents during a power failure that prompted an evacuation of more than 100 residents after Hurricane Irma. Authorities ruled 12 of the 14 deaths at the nursing home in September 2017 were homicides. Carballo, the former chief administrator, faces nine counts of aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person or disabled adult. Colin, a registered nurse and night shift nursing supervisor, faces nine counts of aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person or disabled adult. Meggie, a registered nurse, faces two counts of aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person or disabled adult and two counts of tampering with or fabricating evidence in connection with medical records.
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Prosecutors filed charges in the deaths of nine Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills residents during a power failure that prompted an evacuation of more than 100 residents after Hurricane Irma. Authorities ruled 12 of 14 deaths at the nursing home September 2017 were homicides. Carballo, the former chief administrator, faces nine counts of aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person or disabled adult. Colin, a registered nurse and night shift nursing supervisor, faces nine counts of aggravated manslaughter of an elderly person or disabled adult. If convicted, the aggravated manslaughter charges carry maximum penalties of up to 30 years in state prison and the charges of tampering with or fabricating evidence in connection with medical records carry maximum penalties of up to five years in state prison.
Prosecutors filed charges in the deaths of nine Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills residents during a power failure that prompted an evacuation of more than 100 residents after Hurricane Irma. Copyright 2019 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.
Twelve patients at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills died after Hurrricane Irma knocked out power to the facility in 2017. PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. - Florida has created a website to monitor generators at nursing homes and assisted-living facilities as Hurricane Dorian gets closer. The facilities are also required to have an emergency power plan to make sure temperatures in resident-occupied areas don't exceed 81 degrees. The website provides a county-by-county breakdown on the number of facilities throughout the state. South Florida leads the way with 875 providers in Miami-Dade County, 312 in Broward County and 240 in Palm Beach County.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Four people are facing charges in connection with the heat-related deaths of 12 patients at a Hollywood nursing home after its air conditioning stopped working in the days after Hurricane Irma in 2017. Jorge Carballo, a former administrator of the now-shuttered Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills, turned himself in Monday. The arrests mark the first criminal charges involving the September 2017 incident at the nursing home. Mugshots for Jorge Carballo (left) and Sergo Colin (right), arrested in the fallout from the Hollywood Hills nursing home deaths following Hurricane Irma. Mugshots for Althia Meggie (left) and Tamika Miller (right), arrested in the fallout from the Hollywood Hills nursing home deaths following Hurricane Irma.
