Assisted living centers and nursing homes across Florida have spent the past two years making sure their emergency power plans were current and the proper generators were in place, in order to keep in compliance with state updated hurricane regulations requiring plans to keep residents cool and safe should a hurricane knock out power.
However, the coronavirus pandemic has created a whole new set of challenges and concerns of where residents would go should a hurricane hit Florida.
Kim Boudrie-Misko is a former nursing home administrator who now consults other facilities on how to keep their residents safe. “My biggest fear is that there isn’t going to be a place for people to go and that’s their fear as well,” Boudrie-Misko said.