NURSING HOME OPERATOR ACCUSED OF LETTING 9 DIE DURING HURRICANE IRMA FACES TRIAL
Jorge Carballo has been referred to as the “captain who abandoned ship” when a Hollywood Hills rehab facility lost power due to the 2017 Hurricane Irma storms.

Long-term care communities are required to provide essential care to patients and as the nursing home operator, it is being said that Jorge Carballo did not provide adequate instruction to his staff on how to handle the outage when the 150-bed facility reached dangerous temperatures.

“He said Carballo went home even as it became “ridiculously hot” inside the 150-bed, two-story facility and failed to order his patients' evacuation to Memorial Regional Hospital across the street, which had working air conditioning.”

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