Posted on 09/05/2021 5:34:47 PM PDT by Libloather
Seven Louisiana nursing homes on Saturday were ordered to close immediately because their patients were evacuated to a single warehouse ahead of Hurricane Ida, the Louisiana Department of Health said.
Seven patients have died since the move, and five of the deaths have been classified as storm-related fatalities, the health department said in a statement.
Department personnel visited the warehouse on Monday and Tuesday and "observed conditions that have caused great concern to the State Health Officer that he reasonably believes may cause a danger to the public life, health, and safety," according to a separate state order prohibiting the return of residents to the seven facilities.
NBC affiliate WDSU in New Orleans reported that a Louisiana Department of Health spokeswoman said generators failed and patients were on mattresses on the floor without food or clean clothes, and with the odor of human waste filling the air as the warehouse was inundated by stormwater.
The spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
State inspectors who went to the warehouse in the town of Independence "were expelled from the property" and "were subject to intimidation by the owner of the seven nursing facilities," the health department said.
A company associated with the nursing homes, most of which are in the New Orleans metro area, did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday night.
The state health department said it moved the 843 patients from the warehouse Wednesday to other facilities or special needs shelters.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/families-scramble-to-find-elderly-nursing-home-patients-taken-to-warehouse-ahead-of-ida/ar-AAO7VDJ?ocid=a2hs
I guess the Superdome was unavailable.
A warehouse. Isn’t that what mini nursing homes really are? Just a warehouse to keep old people until they are dead?
Meanwhile 4 democrat governors are not held accountable for killing many elderly with their mandates
How in Hades did State regulators not know this was the plan?!
And if it wasn’t, why didn’t state regulators ask then WTH they were doing when they started sending residents there?
Finally, if any of these residents have or had family, where in heck were you? If you couldn’t be there, why weren’t you on the phone to someone in authority when your loved ones were being warehoused?!
Scramble.
Heaven forbid they find out ahead if time what the plan is, raise Cain if it sucks, and/or raise Cain when a good plan is shelved and something insupportable is substituted.
Well the Governor is a Democrat so he can’t be blamed same for the President could be FEMA Director but Biden can’t remember her name so maybe not. Must be Bush or Trump’s fault. I’m sure Biden will blame someone soon and mention his son died of brain cancer.
We have FEMA and every state has it’s own mini version that tax payers pay millions or billions for every year.
The problem is, way too many Godless people have simply become evil. They’re more concerned with SJW and diversity BS because that’s what’s been taught for a decade or three.
“Finally, if any of these residents have or had family, where in heck were you? If you couldn’t be there, why weren’t you on the phone to someone in authority when your loved ones were being warehoused?!”
I think I can enlighten you, since my father was in that mess. I live in central Iowa, and he has lived in New Orleans since 1968. He had a sudden major health crisis last year. Needed nursing home care (developing dementia, among other things) and he was too frail to stand a 1,000 mile transport or a plane trip to my neck of the woods.
The nursing home social worker called me up on Thursday ahead of the hurricane stating that they were moving the residents inland to a purpose-rehabbed state-of-the-art hurricane shelter for elderly nursing home evacuees built in a reinforced commercial building. It had been prepped and waiting. Full equipment, food service, pharmacy, air conditioning, a full complement of staff, and ample generator capacity was in place. The saintly nursing home chain owner was moving everybody without a mandatory evac order because he’s a radiant, golden-hearted specimen of humanity. NOTHING was said about a warehouse.
As soon as the storm blew over, I called one of the nursing home admin people for a status report. All of the above was repeated to me and more reassuring details besides. Bolstered by the fact that she claimed to have been on-site at this superior shelter for the previous 48 hours to eyewitness the heart-warming miracle personally. Everything was great. The residents were having a great time. Everything was brilliantly taken care of. No detail had been overlooked. Given the fact that New Orleans was a friggin disaster by this point, the story sounded like good news. They needed a few days for the experts to assess the vacated facilities for suitability of return. If that couldn’t be done, a brilliant master plan to safely relocate the people to other facilities was ready for implementation. My patience with them as they handled a serious and fluid situation with spotty communications was much appreciated.
Unfortunately, those people were spinning a pack of lies to everybody. They were denying entry to local families of residents there who traveled through wreckage to see their kin. They ejected inspectors from the Louisiana Dept of Health from the premises. They were not admitting that their incompetence had created a mess that had spun out of control. They didn’t ask for help to fix it. They barred the doors and flailed.
Nobody from the nursing home chain and none of the gov’t employees who shut that situation down and rescued those people notified me about the mess. Nobody told me that he was re-evacuated to another shelter in Bossier City. Or that he was then placed in a decent facility five hours away from New Orleans. Not one call. I learned about the problem from a Free Republic post. I instantly burned up the phones. No answer from the nursing home people. No answer at the Tangipahoa Parish sheriff’s office. I got action by calling the Louisiana State Police barracks for that area and demanding that they find out where my dad was.
Ten minutes later the skilled facility that had taken him in rang my phone. He’s fine now. He got there Friday night with his meds, the clothes he wore out of New Orleans, no chart, and no info to furnish a clue about how to contact his family. They have his chart now. The only thing he’s scared of is the possibility of going back to New Orleans. I’ll be on the phone with the administration there tomorrow morning to make damned sure that doesn’t happen. And to have their staff physician evaluate him to see if he’s now strong enough for a medical transport to the Midwest. If he is, I’ll find a way to pull $7,000 out of my ear for a licensed interstate medical transport. Meanwhile, he’s at a place that’s decent and competent. He’s feeling pretty good after a week from hell.
Finally, the owner had filed this evac plan and had it approved by the state—for, I believe, half the number of people he crammed into it, for half the number of days they were kept there, with a lot more staff than he actually put in place. This nursing home chain owner is a fatcat real estate developer with lots of political connections and a history of lavish political donations. And no, he won’t go to prison like he would damn near anywhere else but New York. In short, the old Louisiana story.
This might be TMI, but I thought your “where were the negligent families” query deserved a generous helping of info from someone who actually knows something. You’re welcome.
https://www.heraldonline.com/news/politics-government/article173702536.html
Personally, I find what the killer Q-Mo did in particular, New York, work of the devil... most especially since he had other options to care for the sick ... and he for whatever reason did what could only inflict the most harm and death... Evil on a grand scale.
I’m glad that your father is in a decent place now and that you were able to track him down. I hope you are reunited soon!
Not at all TMI.
Information and guidance for others.
A good return after you found out about the situation on FR.
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