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 ghastly problems that festered after residents of seven New Orleans-area nursing homes were evacuated to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish had less to do with the emergency plan itself ...

The Louisiana Department of Health was aware of plans from seven nursing homes to evacuate their residents to a warehouse in Independence, Louisiana, to shelter during Hurricane Ida.

In all, state officials recommended 16 nursing homes from hurricane-prone areas reconsider evacuation sites they planned to use.

A recent task force meeting regarding home evacuation plans submitted to the state shows nursing homes statewide may not be any better prepared for a storm than last year.

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 ...

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 ...

Louisiana state government does little to screen the nursing home natural disaster evacuation plans required by law or to ensure that nursing homes carry out those plans as written, according to ...

Nursing homes remain ill-prepared for disaster NURSING HOME EVACUATION PLANS LARGELY UNIMPROVEDDespite Rita's chaos, dozens of facilities are still relying on flimsy arrangements ...

The Louisiana Department of Health was aware of plans from seven nursing homes to evacuate their residents to a warehouse in Independence, Louisiana, to shelter during Hurricane Ida.