Looters Target Nursing Home

This is truly disturbing:
Managers at a nursing home were prepared to cope with the power outages and had enough food for days, but then the looting began. The Covenant Home’s bus driver surrendered the vehicle to carjackers after being threatened.
Bands of people drove by the nursing home, shouting to residents, “Get out!” On Wednesday, 80 [...]

Hurricane Katrina

I haven’t found much in the news about how Hurricane Katrina is affecting Nursing Homes. I did find this very troubling snippet:

Sue Bob’s Diary: Adventures in HIPAA Land Part 1: The Doctor=s Appointment

Applies to all facilities and covered entities
Posted October 1, 2002
By Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D., Garlo Ward, P.C.
I pulled into Dr. Eberhardt’s parking lot on a hot, steamy Texas Hill Country day in August. As I got out of the car, I could see the heat shimmering up from the parking lot. For weeks, [...]

Sue Bob’s Diary: Adventures in HIPAA Land Part 2: Going to the Drug Store

Applies to all facilities and covered entities
Posted October 10, 2002

By Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D., Garlo Ward, P.C.
I left Dr. Eberhardt’s office and drove to the town square to go to the drugstore. Dale Nichols is the town pharmacist. He grew up in this town, and has only left long enough to go to [...]

Sue Bob’s Diary: Adventures in HIPAA Land Part 3: A Visit to the Nursing Home, Chapter 1

Applies to all facilities and covered entities
Posted November 6, 2002
By Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D., Garlo Ward, P.C.
I walked up the sidewalk to Serendipity Village Rest Home to visit my grandparents. One advantage of having lived in the same small town where my folks and their folks grew up was that all of my [...]

Sue Bob’s Diary: Adventures in HIPAA Land Part 4: The Storm

Applies to all facilities and covered entities
Posted December 5, 2002
By Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D., Garlo Ward, P.C.
I walked into the Serendipity Nursing Home. It was 6 pm on a dark, cold and drizzly Saturday evening in November. I was dateless as usual on this Saturday night (but that’s a story for [...]

Sue Bob’s Diary: Why HIPAA is like Duck Poop (Do you go by State or Federal Law?)

Applies to all facilities and covered entities
Posted January 2, 2003
By Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D., Garlo Ward, P.C.
It was a crisply cool and sunny Saturday morning and there I was in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart in our little Texas Hill Country town. Wal-Mart is the closest thing we have to a [...]

Sue Bob’s Diary: Texas Supreme Court Incites People To “Channel While Dressed Like Tinkerbell”: Another Litigation Floodgate Opens

Applies to ICF-MR’s and covered entities
Posted January 31, 2003
By Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D., Garlo Ward, P.C.
I was taking my daily walk in the neighborhood when I saw a familiar person standing on the sidewalk a block away. I walked up and saw that it was Lucas Pahl. Lucas is the QMRP [...]

Sue Bob’s Diary: Adventures in HIPAA Land: It’s Heeeerrrre!!!

By Jerri Lynn Ward with Commentary by Hugh Barton
Posted April 18, 2003
It’s April 14 and I had been tearing my hair out over my tax return, so I decided to take a break and go visit Fred Quinn in the hospital and my grandparents at the Serendipity Village Rest Home. I cleaned up and [...]

Sue Bob’s Diary: Soap Opera at the Serendipity (Bad Faith Complaints)

By Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
Posted June 5, 2003
Today, I was in the produce department at the local HEB Pantry Store trying to open one of those stupid, plastic, impossible-to-open produce bags. I was almost to the point of tearing into it with my teeth when I saw Sam Hershey, the Administrator at the Serendipity [...]

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