“The facility also entered late entries into medical records claiming safe temperatures for patients,” Mr. Senior said in the statement, “while those same patients were across the street dying in the emergency room with temperatures of over 108 degrees Fahrenheit.”

In one instance, at 4:42 a.m., a nurse wrote that a 78-year-old resident’s temperature was 101.6 degrees. But the resident had arrived at the hospital’s emergency room in cardiac arrest 10 minutes earlier, with a temperature that the hospital recorded at 108.3 degrees. She could not be saved.

Others who died had body temperatures of 109.9, 108.5 and 107.

In another case, which the agency described as “very egregious,” someone at the nursing home described a 84-year-old patient as “resting in bed” with breathing that was “even and unlabored.”

By the time that update was added, the person had already died.

But in a statement, Kirsten K. Ullman, a lawyer for the nursing home, said the late entries into residents’ medical records were not significant, since workers often wait until the end of their shift to update records. Since the home was emptied before the end of the early shift on Sept. 13, some entries could not be made until residents had already left, she wrote.

“Late entries document care given during the shift, but which was not documented due to circumstances” beyond the home’s control, Ms. Ullman wrote.

The alarming body temperatures cited by the agency, some of which were taken at the hospital, were much higher than those documented by the nursing home staff while the residents were still there, she wrote.

“The caregivers at Hollywood Hills responded to the conditions with which they were faced in real time,” she wrote. “It is only based on hindsight of outcome that the reasonable actions taken at the time are being criticized.”