Hurricane Katrina
August 31, 2005 by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
Filed under Nursing Homes
I haven’t found much in the news about how Hurricane Katrina is affecting Nursing Homes. I did find this very troubling snippet:
While concerned about his brother’s well-being, Booth also was saying a prayer for the residents of a nursing home in New Orleans where two of his friends work as nurses. The administrator of the nursing home had rented city buses to help transport residents from the facility. However, when Ray Nagin, mayor of New Orleans, commandeered the city’s bus fleet for a mandatory evacuation, that left the nursing home in a lurch.
“There were 150 senior citizens left with no way to move to safer ground. They were just stuck,” he said.
(emphasis added)
What do you suppose the surveyors will do with that situation? Will they say that the nursing home should have anticipated this?
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