The Louisiana Department of Health today revoked the nursing home licenses of the seven facilities that evacuated patients to a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish.
"There is no emergency preparedness plan that allows for residents to be kept in such an unsafe, unsanitary, and unhealthy condition," said LDH Executive Council Stephen Russo. "The lack of adequate care for these residents is inhumane and goes against the rules, regulations and applicable statutes."
Russo said the investigation continues into the more than 800 patients housed in a nursing home with no electricity and no air conditioning after the storm.
There were five deaths initially, with two more patients dying after they were hospitalized.
The nursing homes were in Jefferson, Orleans, Terrebonne and Lafourche. He says the owner of those homes, Baton Rouge-area businessman Bob Dean, does not own any other nursing homes in the state.
