Federal OIG To Investigate Katrina Nursing Home Deaths

Senator Chuck Grassley, through his position on the Senate Finance Committee, has issued a press release regarding his request that the OIG investigate nursing home deaths during Katrina. Specifically, he has requested that the OIG look at the following:
1) Were long-term care facilities prepared to evacuate patients across State lines?
2) Were policies and procedures [...]

Talk Radio Reminder

This is a reminder that tomorrow, Friday, September 23, I will be Mychal Massie’s guest on talk radio at about 1:06 ET on WDEL 1150 AM in Delaware. I will be discussing the issue of St. Rita’s nursing home in New Orleans.
You can listen to it through the internet by clicking here. [...]

“Don’t Get Stuck On Stupid, Reporters”

General Honore takes no guff from the reporters in New Orleans(HT Radioblogger):
Honore: And Mr. Mayor, let’s go back, because I can see right now, we’re setting this up as he said, he said, we said. All right? We are not going to go, by order of the mayor and the governor, and open the convention [...]

Here We Go Again: Hurricane Rita

Hurricane Rita is on its way and it’s time for Coastal areas to think about their evacuation plans. The word on the street is that FEMA is starting to grab buses to evacuate the Katrina evacuees out of Houston. I have heard that bus companies are requiring payment up front from [...]

Correction

Please note that my last post should read:
On Friday, September 23, (correction) I will again be Mychal Massie’s guest. He will interview me at about 1:06 ET on WDEL 1150 AM in Delaware. You can also listen to it through the internet by clicking here.

Talk Radio Appearances This Week

I am scheduled to appear on two talk radio shows this week to talk about Katrina and its effect on nursing homes, specifically about St. Rita’s in New Orleans.
I will first appear on Mychal Massie’s Straight Talk on Right Talk Radio at about 1:18 ET. It streams accross the internet and can be listened [...]

Some Good Katrina News

Here we have a story about clients from a group home for mentally ill men who evacuated themselves after being separated from caregivers:
Their odyssey began with the rest of New Orleans’ poor. They knew the hurricane was coming but had no cars to make their escape and no place to go anyway.
On Aug. 28, the [...]

Why Did This Happen?

The media is reporting the following:
Authorities Wednesday began removing the remains of more than 30 people from a flooded nursing home in a suburban parish.
The discovery at St. Rita’s Nursing Home in lower St. Bernard Parish came as 25,000 body bags arrived at the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. (Full story)
On Thursday, the official [...]

PPAT Information On Katrina Relief Efforts

I received an e-mail with the following information from PPAT:
Private Provider and Family Assistance:
1.) Mr. Chris Tilly, Executive Director of CARSA (Community and Residential Services Association) in Louisiana shared that several thousand providers have evacuated New Orleans, and a number of their group and community homes were destroyed by the hurricane. Housing is [...]

This Is Horrifying

New Orleans Doctors Plead for Help
Sep 01 4:29 PM US/Eastern
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Medical Writer
news://newsclip.ap.org/TXJK10309011912@news.ap.org
Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, saying they were nearly out of food and power and had been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.
“We have been [...]

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