Electrical bed possible source of deadly fire
Hospital Safety Connection, December 20, 2004
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An electrical bed may be the culprit from a Nashville nursing home fire that killed 14 people last year, channel WTVF reported.
Within hours of last year's fire inside the Nashville HealthCare nursing home, investigators focused on an electric hospital bed in Room 221 as the likely cause.
"We are not saying the bed was the source," state fire investigator Bob Pollard told WTVF. "We are saying the bed was very near the source."
A testing facility hired by Nashville HealthCare initially didn't link the bed to the fire. However, a more recent test points to the bed as the possible source.
A series of investigations conducted by channel WTVF revealed information regarding improper repairs to the bed by technicians. This new information raises questions about whether older beds need to be replaced regularly.
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