and one elderly woman was lying on the floor.
Another "licensed" home by the state of Florida, with apparently little oversight.
18 in Boarding Home Found to Be SwelteringTAMPA | Eighteen residents of a state-licensed boarding home have been removed after authorities found them in an overcrowded residence without air conditioning as temperatures soared outside.
Authorities said the residents had been without air conditioning for up to two days in windowless rooms furnished with bunk beds while the heat index outside reached 104 degrees. One 86-year-old woman, found unresponsive on the floor, was taken to a hospital.
The Department of Children & Families took 16 of the residents to Bay Gardens Retirement Village near the University of South Florida, said Nancy Ortiz, a nurse who helped care for them when they arrived Thursday evening.
A sister picked up one resident, and the 86-year-old remained at the hospital, where she was responsive. Investigators arrested Daphne Jones, 36, charging her with 18 counts of neglect of the elderly or disabled, jail records showed. Jones posted $135,000 bail Friday and was released from jail.
There is so much lack of state oversight here in the DCF. Since our Democratic head of the DCF under Crist approves of all the privatizing....I don't see much hope for change.
In one county sheriff's deputies visited a group home 44 times, and never saw a woman covered with maggots. Something is wrong with that.
Not ruled "willful neglect" even though visited 44 times by deputiesLOXAHATCHEE - State and local authorities visited an unlicensed South Florida adult group home numerous times before discovering a 66-year-old woman covered in filth and maggots in May, a newspaper reported Sunday.
....""We couldn't show there was willful neglect," Assistant State Attorney Michael Rachel said.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies responded to the home 44 times for a variety of calls in the six months before it was closed on May 24, but did not note unsatisfactory conditions, The Palm Beach Post reported Sunday.
Something is wrong with my state. I think Jeb had too much success in emptying the government buildings. He said he "envisioned a time when "we can make these buildings around us empty of workers; silent monuments to the time when government played a larger role than it deserved or could adequately fill."
He may have succeeded too well.
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