Unlike Florida, where patients died in heat, NC law requires nursing home generators

There are 436 licensed nursing facilities in North Carolina, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. They're required to test generators 30 minutes a week. Regulators also check the generators during annual visits, DHHS spokesman Cobey Culton said.

Last year, regulators found 182 "generator-related deficiencies" at state nursing homes, Culton said in an email. None of the generators failed to run, Culton said. In a number of cases facilities were unable to produce records showing that the generator had been tested as required.