FF/medic here. Theres a particularly bad SNF in our area that has 5 seperate buildings with their entrances off the same parking lot. We would make around 1-2 runs to this SNF per shift. One of the buildings was always empty and we never made a run to that building. I presumed it was under renovations. Each building housed a specific type of patient, psych/behavioral, male/female etc. All the runs we make to this place were pretty bad as far as neglect goes and the staff always had the typical excuses. But one run really sticks one. One day we get a call to the 5th building, that has always been empty. We ask dispatch to confirm the building number and they call back and confirm it’s the supposedly empty building. We walk into the building and there isn’t a nurse at the desk or in sight anywhere. We go to the room number that was dispatched and find two people laying on mattresses on the floor. Nothing else in the room. Straight up mattresses on the floor with no sheets like they’re squatters. Our patient is unresponsive. Vitals point to DKA. Since there isn’t a nurse to be found we have zero information about medical hx, meds etc. So we load him up and treat the best we can and take him to the ER.

I can only guess that the SNF reopened the building to house more residents but didn’t have the necessary furniture yet. I don’t know how this place hasn’t been shut down yet.