Malfunctioning elevators that suddenly dropped several floors have injured at least 12 people at Miami’s veterans hospital over two years, according to a nurses union.
The Miami VA Medical Center “is supposed to be a place of healing. It is not supposed to have death trap elevators,” Bill Frogameni, a registered nurse who works at the veteran’s hospital and is the director of National Nurses United Miami VA chapter, told the Miami Herald in a phone interview. National Nurses United represents thousands of nurses at 23 VA facilities.
Patients and workers use the elevators to move through the 12-story hospital at 1201 NW 16th St in Miami. And all of the Miami VA’s main hospital elevators were listed as having some parts in poor or critical condition during the hospital’s most recent 2023 assessment, which the Miami Herald obtained through a federal public record request…