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The night before Hurricane Irma began roaring over Florida, staffers at the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills locked the doors, shuttered the windows and turned the temperature down to about 67 degrees — a buffer, administrators thought, to keep the building cool in case the power went out. It wouldn’t last long. About 3 p.m. on Sunday, the lights flickered, nursing-home executives say. The power stayed on, but a janitor soon noticed a problem: The massive chiller used to serve the 152-bed facility was spewing warm, muggy air. (Davis, Zezima and Berman, 9/15)

The first 911 call from the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills didn't sound ominous: A nursing home patient had an abnormal heartbeat. An hour later, came a second call: a patient had trouble breathing. Then came the third call. A patient had gone into cardiac arrest — and died. (9/16)

When the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills submitted its 43-page emergency management plan to county administrators in July, it included details on how the home would maintain clean linen, distribute canned food and ensure residents had access to hand sanitizers. It made no mention of how residents would be kept cool if the home’s power was lost. (Marin Miller, 9/17)

In the sweltering Florida heat Tuesday afternoon, 84-year-old Betty Hibbard sat on her bed, in a second-floor hallway of the nursing home where she lived, wearing an institutional gown near an air blower. Ms. Hibbard was hot and struggling to breathe, according to her friend Jean Johnson, who visited. Ms. Johnson stayed with her for an hour and gave her friend a cold can of Coca-Cola before she left at about 5:30 p.m. (Kamp, Evans and Campo-Flores, 9/15)

Florida's healthcare agency ordered a Miami-area nursing home suspended from the state Medicaid program on Thursday after eight elderly patients there were exposed to sweltering heat in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and died. More than 140 residents of the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills were evacuated on Wednesday after fire and rescue crews and medical staff from a nearby hospital found many of the facility's residents suffering from dehydration, heat stress and breathing difficulties. (Dobuzinskis, 9/15)

Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced new rules Saturday requiring the state’s nursing homes and assisted-living facilities to have backup generators to control interior temperatures after emergencies, marking the latest response after eight patients from an overheating nursing home died earlier in the week. (Kamp, 9/16)

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) on Saturday announced that he was directing all nursing homes in the state to purchase generators for use during power outages after eight people died at a nursing home following Hurricane Irma. Scott said that he was "outraged" over the deaths of the nursing home residents during a power outage caused by the hurricane, according to a press statement provided by ABC News. (Bowden, 9/16)

Nursing homes and assisted living facilities that lost power during Hurricane Irma are being evacuated throughout Florida. Governor Rick Scott is asking first responders to check in and make sure that residents are safe after eight patients died at a nursing home facility in Hollywood Hills earlier this week. (Aboraya, 9/15)

As of Friday afternoon, 177 assisted living facilities and 40 nursing homes in Florida had reported evacuations, according to state officials. Another 182 assisted living facilities were closed and 193 were using generators. (Miller, 9/15)