Tenet says Memorial Hospital report wrong

A spokesman for Tenet Healthcare said a report carried by the Associated Press and on the front page of this morning's New York Times concerning 45 bodies found on the flooded grounds of Memorial Hospital in New Orleans is inaccurate. The AP quoted hospital officials as saying the bodies were those of patients who may have drowned after staff evacuated the hospital. "No living patient was left behind," Tenet spokesman Larry Anderson said. "We evacuated every living patient before the staff left on Friday... The coroner simply didn't show up until yesterday." Tenet operates several facilities in the region other than Memorial, including Gulf Coast Medical Center, Kenner Regional Medical Center, Lindy Boggs Medical Center, Meadowcrest Hospital and NorthShore Regional Medical Center.

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