The health director in Hopkinton, Massachusetts is demanding answers after a series of new problems at the Golden Pond Assisted Living Facility.
Last month, an 86-year-old woman died in a unit there where the temperature reached 99 degrees. Now, 30 other residents have been taken to the hospital in the last three weeks, according to health director Shaun McAuliffe.
“I don’t have access to why all the residents were transported. I do know that there were four complaining of heat-related issues,” McAuliffe told WBZ-TV Tuesday.
The transports happened as the town and multiple authorities work to determine how the woman died on Wednesday, Sept. 30. A police report said her “apartment was extremely hot with the thermostat indicating that the room temperature was 99 degrees Fahrenheit.”…