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Hurricane Katrina blew great change into the nursing home industry in New Orleans. In an interview with Joseph Donchess, executive director of the Nursing Home Association of Louisiana (www.lnha.org) on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, GMMR discussed those changes and the lessons learned in the past year. This is the first installment in this interview.
“Today, in the four-parish area, 16 to 18 nursing homes remain closed. Many that remain open are operating at a fraction of their capacity,” Mr. Donchess said. There is a real question as to what is the need in the region.
Mr. Donchess said the issue of the region’s need for services was being asked well before Katrina occurred. Today, there is greater urgency to this question as the industry struggles to determine the real need after so many of the nursing home residents were dispersed throughout the United States.
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