The River Palms evacuation plans, for example, say that the nursing home’s administrator should “establish daily communications with staff members, residents, and resident families/responsible ...

The Louisiana Legislature reacted to the Dean debacle with a new law to strengthen nursing home emergency plans and evacuation standards, but it won’t be fully in place until May 2023.

Dean’s most recent nursing home evacuation plan summaries — which were filed in March — list details that don’t appear to be workable during a hurricane evacuation, ...

“The owner and administrators of the nursing homes that evacuated to Independence, Louisiana, failed to execute on the plans that they set forth in the emergency evacuation plan,” Litten told ...

Louisiana edged closer Tuesday to assigning responsibility for nursing home emergency plans to a specific state agency and closing a regulatory loophole that may have contributed to the horrific ...

Through Hurricane Ida, the state learned just how unprepared some nursing homes were for evacuations. During the storm, 12 older adults died after being sent to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish.

Bob Dean, the owner of seven nursing homes that evacuated more than 800 residents to a warehouse ahead of Hurricane Ida, plans to appeal the state’s decision to revoke the licenses for the ...

WHAT NEWSDAY FOUND. The financially insolvent Cold Spring Hills Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation plans to begin "emergency evacuation" procedures this week, moving its more than 330 residents ...

What evacuation plans were in place? ... Lundy Family Care Home (964 N Summit Ave., Pasadena, 91103): Four residents evacuated to Worldmark Indio.

“The owner and administrators of the nursing homes that evacuated to Independence, Louisiana, failed to execute on the plans that they set forth in the emergency evacuation plan,” Litten told ...