Monday, September 25, 2017

Another error by the editor (not a “reporter error”) in The Palm Beach Post, this time on the front page.


UPDATE: The answer to the question posed last Saturday is below, “Where exactly is Signature HealthCare of Palm Beach located?” The editor reported this company is located “in Lake Worth”; that is not true. Find out the correct location following the blog post from two days ago:

This latest editing error appeared on page A1 of Saturday’s (Sept. 23rd) print edition in the caption accompanying a photo:
“. . . she was fired by Signature Health Care Palm Beach [sic] in Lake Worth [sic] . . .”
Besides the editor getting the company name wrong, “Signature HealthCare of Palm Beach” is not “in Lake Worth”.

As reported by Post reporter Joe Capozzi in last Saturday’s front page story (name obscured):

The day after Hurricane Irma roared through South Florida, was called in to work to her part-time job as a nursing assistant at Signature HealthCare of Palm Beach, a 120-bed nursing home off Lake Worth Road near Greenacres.

Now to the question: Where exactly is Signature HealthCare of Palm Beach located? Near Greenacres or in another city? In suburban Lake Worth?

The answer is below.

Once again, here is a map courtesy of your
government here in PBC:
Use this link to learn more about municipal borders, unincorporated PBC, the “Lake Worth Corridor”, and suburban Lake Worth.

ANSWER:

The company Signature HealthCare of Palm Beach is not “in Lake Worth” as reported by the editor in Saturday’s photo caption. The company is not in suburban (unincorporated) Lake Worth either. The reporter in Saturday’s story wrote Signature HealthCare of Palm Beach is “near Greenacres” and he’s very close; that company is “near” the City of Greenacres, but is it in Greenacres? No.

Signature HealthCare of Palm Beach is also near the Great Walled City of Atlantis too (shaded royal purple in map below). But is it within that Great Wall?

No! Then where is it?
Signature HealthCare of Palm Beach is located
in the Village of Palm Springs!