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San Antonio Express-News
February 8, 2018
Hurricane Katrina brought Marshall, a high school dropout, to San Antonio in 2005. He lived in a shelter for a .... Nursing homes and assisted living facilities provide a higher level of care than that found in boarding homes: help with feeding, bathing, skilled nursing care and so on. Such care is expensive.
9NEWS.com
February 6, 2018
... worked in emergency management for a decade, during which she helped with the evacuations of the Waldo Canyon Fire and Hurricane Katrina. ... Tuneberg pulled up a map of Denver and was able to find communities that may need help first, like nursing homes where residents can be sensitive to theÃÂ ...
WGNO
November 10, 2017
NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans attorney who represented the owners of a St. Bernard Parish nursing home where dozens of residents died after Hurricane Katrina is now representing a Florida nursing home in a similar case. Jim Cobb is known locally for his work on the case of St. Rita's NursingÃÂ ...
Dallas News
October 9, 2017
In 2005, St. Rita's nursing home outside New Orleans was one of the few in St. Bernard Parish to shelter in place during Hurricane Katrina. More than 30 elderly residents died when the nursing home flooded. During Katrina, 30 nursing homes evacuated in the Gulf region, according to a 2012 studyÃÂ ...
HuffPost
September 27, 2017
And weak or poorly enforced regulations have left many nursing homes with potentially deadly problems: not enough staff, lack of backup generators and automatic ... After Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 200 hospital and nursing home residents in 2005, the Office of the Inspector General of theÃÂ ...
Nurse.com (blog)
September 25, 2017
Several days after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc across Florida, nine residents from one of its nursing homes died. The deaths were not caused by flooding, high winds or a building collapse, but by room temperatures that went from hot to oppressive and finally to fatal after a transformer powering theirÃÂ ...
Medical Xpress
September 20, 2017
During Hurricane Katrina and Rita in the USA, nursing homes received little support from federal, state and local response agencies during or after the disasters. We also need to coordinate disaster plans with multiple agencies. This includes nursing homes, which may both evacuate and shelter residentsÃÂ ...
STAT
September 20, 2017
t does not take a hurricane to put nursing home residents at risk when disaster strikes. Around the country, facilities ... In addition, a third of U.S. nursing homes have been cited for another type of violation: failing to inspect their generators each week or to test them monthly. None of those violations wasÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 15, 2017
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — After an estimated 215 people died in hospitals and nursing homes in Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, policy makers realized that the nation's health care institutions were ill-prepared for disasters. One of the rules they created after years of discussion looked especiallyÃÂ ...
Vox
August 28, 2017
This is the web version of VoxCare, a daily newsletter from Vox on the latest twists and turns in America's health care debate. Like what you're reading? Sign up to get VoxCare in your inbox here. It will take years for Houston to rebuild from Hurricane Harvey. One essential part of that recovery will beÃÂ ...
WIRED
December 20, 2017
He had been looking at the online forecasts from the National Hurricane Center and agreed with their essential conclusions: Harvey was a .... Three months later came Katrina. Then came .... It was of the flood-soaked residents of a nursing home, sitting on their loungers and walkers, water up to their chests.
WABC-TV
December 17, 2017
Experts say the migration from Maria is likely to be even worse than after Hurricane Katrina when the city of New Orleans lost 12 percent of its population. So far hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans have done the same, and they're fleeing a situation that in many places hasn't changed a bit sinceÃÂ ...
Norman Transcript
December 12, 2017
A few years before, his students made teddy bears for students relocated to the Oklahoma City area after Hurricane Katrina. “I wanted to do something in our neighborhood. We drive by those nursing homes every day,” Harris said. “It was a good experience going to the nursing home last year.”.
TribTalk
December 11, 2017
When I saw the picture on TV that was seen around the world of the senior citizens in a nursing home who were wading around in rising water with ... I can only imagine the panic and pain felt by people who resettled in Houston after Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans, only to be re-victimized.
GQ Magazine
December 7, 2017
He'd never worked a storm until Hurricane Katrina, when his unit was deployed as security for a company that removed bodies from houses. And then last year, his father's church in Robert, Louisiana, was flooded—news he personally delivered to his father after discovering the damage. This year he andÃÂ ...
ThinkProgress
December 5, 2017
Hurricane Harvey devastated a large portion of southeast Texas, leaving thousands homeless and a toxic stew of chemicals in communities across the region. Dramatic images of the immediate effects of the storm — from the emergency evacuation of a nursing home to the explosions at a chemical plantÃÂ ...
Government Technology
November 30, 2017
26, triggering unprecedented flooding and causing about $200 billion in damage, nearly double the damage caused by Katrina in 2005. After Irma crushed several Caribbean islands and then the United States mainland, Hurricane Maria plowed across Puerto Rico on Sept. 20, destroying the U.S. territory.
Peoria Journal Star
November 12, 2017
Several churches hit by recent hurricanes are challenging the policy in court. ... religiously affiliated schools, health care providers and nursing homes. ... High winds and flooding from Hurricane Katrina in 2005 damaged more ...
EMS1.com
November 11, 2017
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico— A week after Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, the Hospital ... the team traveled to nursing homes, churches and schools around the island to ... He spent a month in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and said the ...
WGNO
November 11, 2017
Nursing home residents suffered in the heat after Hurricane Irma, ... after Hurricane Katrina is now representing a Florida nursing home in a similar case. ... deal with the threat of power loss for nursing homes after the storm.
HuffPost
November 1, 2017
Footnoting the headlines about Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, Harvey, and ... During a criminal investigation into one nursing home after Hurricane Irma, ... to restore electricity, but nursing homes were not considered as high a ...
Palisades Hudson Financial Group
October 31, 2017
Eight residents of a Hollywood, Florida nursing home died shortly after ... from deaths in nursing homes, especially following Hurricane Katrina ...
McKnight's Long Term Care News
October 25, 2017
Recent hurricanes in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico have led to the Centers ... preparedness rules that came out of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
CBS Miami
October 16, 2017
He has covered a range of stories from cops to courts, foreclosures to features. In the past decade, Carey has covered Hurricane Katrina from ...
New York Times
September 15, 2017
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — After an estimated 215 people died in hospitals and nursing homes in Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, policy makers realized that the nation's health care institutions were ill-prepared for disasters. One of the rules they created after years of discussion looked especiallyÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
December 31, 1999
I began writing this piece about a week after Hurricane Harvey hit Texas. Those interviews all began with lessons learned and lingering traumas from Hurricanes Katrina, Andrew, or other disasters. At the time, everyone responding to Harvey was also worried about Irma, then bearing down on Florida.
New York Magazine
December 31, 1999
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, more than 1,800 died, many by drowning, as levees and flood walls failed and the city's poorest neighborhoods ... Among the deaths that are still waiting to be added to the official count is that of a resident at a small nursing home outside of San Juan who,ÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
PONCE, P.R. — Almost two months after Hurricane Maria tore through ... the lack of power in nursing homes, private houses and hospitals hit the elderly particularly hard. ... out at a nursing home after Hurricane Irma knocked out the power. ... toll was so low compared to disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.
CBS Miami
December 31, 1999
Cobb said the nursing home is speaking out now, “because we've had enough. ... the fate of nursing home residents during hurricanes Katrina, Rita, ... to require all nursing homes to have generators and that legislation failed ...
The Salem News
October 2, 2017
It also served to further quality care, since neither nursing homes ... Approximately 71 percent of Hurricane Katrina victims were older than 60.
Insurance Journal
October 2, 2017
Rick Scott gave nursing homes and assisted living facilities 60 days to ... When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in August 2005, 34 elderlyÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
September 30, 2017
Two nursing homes filled with 184 residents were flooded with nearly a .... after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Louisiana floods of 2016.
HollandSentinel.com
September 29, 2017
Jeff Spitzer-Resnick: Nursing home residents need protection ... who live in nursing homes — were often subjected to abuse and neglect, shortening ... Approximately 71 percent of Hurricane Katrina victims were older than 60.
Sun Sentinel
September 22, 2017
Florida summit targets nursing home hurricane improvements - but will ... hurricane summit that revealed two key points: That nursing homes are not on ... Louisiana nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Katrina, andÃÂ ...
NPR
September 15, 2017
Officials at the nursing home said they called the power company when ... So during Hurricane Katrina, about half the people who died were 75ÃÂ ...
New York Times
September 15, 2017
After an estimated 215 people died in hospitals and nursing homes in Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, policy makers realizedÃÂ ...
CBS Miami
December 31, 1999
First Search Warrants Filed In Deaths At Hollywood Nursing Home ... a family member of patients at Hollywood Hills after Hurricane Irma knocked out ... In the past decade, Carey has covered Hurricane Katrina from New Orle.
WEAR
December 31, 1999
Hurricane Irma: Long-term care facilities react to requirements set by Gov. ... died at a nursing home in Hollywood in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. ... Tassin and her family evacuated from Waveland, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. ... The new rules mandate nursing homes and assisted-living facilitiesÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 31, 1999
Many of America's roughly 15,600 nursing homes are unprepared for ... After Hurricane Katrina, which killed more than 200 hospital andÃÂ ...
Prescott Daily Courier
March 6, 2017
... and classroom projects have included the annual Thanksgiving food drive; holiday cards for veterans and nursing homes; Christmas caroling at the VA; angel tree at Christmas; adopting a manatee; buying goats for families in third world countries ...
NOLA.com
March 2, 2017
They remain active in today's community, operating the Lafon Nursing Facility, the oldest Catholic nursing home in the United States, along with St. Mary's Academy and the St. John Berchmans Manor senior citizen center.
Statesman Journal
February 28, 2017
I would spend it on the people who got hit by Hurricane Katrina. Benjamin Cirocco, Grade 5, ..... I would give it to nursing homes because I had a family member in a home that didn't have enough people there to care for them. They need more workers andÃÂ ...
Carbondale News
February 27, 2017
Two days after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, I went to a Red Cross emergency shelter on the University of Alabama campus.
Charlotte Observer
February 24, 2017
Rogers resides right now in a room devoid of personal touches in a Coast nursing home. Keckler still visits. He says he always will.
News & Observer
February 24, 2017
Rogers resides right now in a room devoid of personal touches in a Coast nursing home. Keckler still visits. He says he always will.
Crosswalk.com (blog)
February 22, 2017
But here and there, we find ministers who would rather study than minister, rather exegete Romans than call on the elderly at the nursing home, and prefer their commentaries and study of the original languages than sitting down with the children to ...
Kaiser Family Foundation
January 31, 2017
If medical costs rise, more individuals enroll due to an economic downturn or there is an epidemic (such as HIV/AIDS) or a natural disaster (like Hurricane Katrina), or new treatments (like drugs for hepatitis C), Medicaid can rapidly respond and ...
Picayune Item
January 20, 2017
Many people objected to the formation of the Utility Authority after Hurricane Katrina, but a lot of improvements have been made to not only the wastewater system, but through the addition of water systems as well.
The Boston Globe
January 13, 2017
NEW ORLEANS - I had only ever seen New Orleans in her worst light, several months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29, 2005.
The Wild Hunt
January 6, 2017
Then, in 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit. New Orleans and the region were devastated. As someone devoted to ... In her interview with The Times-Picayune she speculated that, prior to the hurricane, there were approximately 3,000 Pagans in the New Orleans ...
