More than 40 percent of Florida nursing homes are asking healthcare regulators for more time to meet backup-power requirements pushed by Gov. Rick Scott after Hurricane Irma last year, according to an article on the St. Augustine Record website.
But Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration said it won’t approve waiver requests for facilities that haven’t been working on the situation.
“Any facility that has a delay in implementation will need to submit evidence that shows they are well underway in their project before they are granted a variance,” an agency official said.
State documents show that between Sept. 4 and Nov. 15, 305 nursing homes submitted requests for variances.
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