I saw an interview last night from the doctor who treated most of the patients at this nursing home. They had to weigh moving these people or keeping them there. Statistically, they loose 2-3 patients in each of these moves. I can only imaging how it would feel to know that a family member was removed and later died only to find out the storm missed them by miles. I'm not saying they made the right decision, but they did have to make a choice.

From all the news I have gathered, these are not the sort of people you would find in an abusive sort of situation. They might have had made a poor judgment call but I challenge you to put yourself in their shoes.

We know they had information on the storm. We know they had an opportunity to get out. We know that they were likely to loose a couple of folks in the transfer.

We know all of that but we don't know the past history of evacuation. We don't know how the building has weathered previous storms. We don't know a lot of the factors that they had to use to make that difficult decision.

Our attorney general is playing CYA. He is probably dirty just like the rest of the politicians here and wants to make sure there is no reason to hold him accountable for any wrong doing. Rushing to judgment is only going to make him look like a fool and waste the tax payers’ money. Welcome to Louisiana.

Comments
on Sep 16, 2005
But you notice that "they" got out, huh?
on Sep 16, 2005
Did they? When did they leave? Did they leave the elderly untended? Care to post a link?

Also, I wonder if the state offered anywhere for these people to be taken. When they were evacuating hospitals they showed dozens of people left unattended on the tarmac as the helicopter shuttled them off to who knows where. If these people die jsut by moving them as the article states, how many more would have died left out in the elements while they were waiting?

How many old people died in the Superdome? I wonder, doc, if you have any information as to the resources the owners neglected to use. If you do, I'll be the first to condemn these people. Until I do, I won't.
on Sep 16, 2005
Did they? When did they leave? Did they leave the elderly untended? Care to post a link?

Also, I wonder if the state offered anywhere for these people to be taken. When they were evacuating hospitals they showed dozens of people left unattended on the tarmac as the helicopter shuttled them off to who knows where. If these people die jsut by moving them as the article states, how many more would have died left out in the elements while they were waiting?

How many old people died in the Superdome? I wonder, doc, if you have any information as to the resources the owners neglected to use. If you do, I'll be the first to condemn these people. Until I do, I won't.



Bertucci, meanwhile, was adamant that he had offered the home two buses with drivers who would take residents to safer ground. "They should have evacuated and people are dead because they didn't," Bertucci said.



The Manganos, owners of St. Rita's Nursing Home near Poydras, were booked Tuesday on 34 counts of negligent homicide. Authorities say the nursing home ignored the parish's mandatory evacuation order and refused offers by the parish to send buses to evacuate the facility


And for the record..."they" are still alive, so they nust have made it out, no? If they hadn't wouldn't they be dead to? And to be honest, I have been looking for over an hour and can find "no" reports of any deaths at the superdome.
on Sep 16, 2005
Link

And to be honest, I have been looking for over an hour and can find "no" reports of any deaths at the superdome.



Look harder, like the link above, which cites at least 10-12 deaths at the Superdome and four rapes. On Nancy Grace (on CNN) last night, they were saying 30-40 deaths at the Superdome and had eye witnesses who said that women and children were being dragged off to be raped.
on Sep 16, 2005
I saw coverage of an elderly person pushed to the side with a note in their hand at the Superdome. Several elderly people died there and at the convention center. There was one elderly man lieing on the side of the road who had been waiting to be airlifted at that overpass.

As for "making it out", no one was allowed to be there once the forced evacuations started. The real question is whether they abandoned elderly people to die, as you seem to be implying. If all the people who are dead now were dead when they left, I don't understand how that is an issue, unless you feel the dead were no less fragile than the owners, or that the owners denied the elderly resources they used themselves. It is my understanding the heat killed most of them. You think maybe there was an airconditioned room that was off limits to patients?