Florida Nursing Home Deaths Declared Homicide

Florida Nursing Home Deaths Declared Homicide
A police officer outside a perimeter surrounding The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills on Sept. 13, 2017. In total, 14 people from the nursing home died following Hurricane Irma. Angel Valentin/Getty Images
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The deaths of 12 elderly people who perished in September due to heat exposure in a nursing home in Florida after the state was hit by Hurricane Irma has been ruled as homicide.

“The medical examiner’s office ruled the manner of death of 12 patients from The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills as homicide with the cause of death attributed to environmental heat exposure,” read a media release put out by the Hollywood Police Department.