Hurricane Katrina news from FierceHealthcare
NewsSocial media to drive disaster preparedness
Although most hospitals have response plans for natural disasters, chemical releases, epidemics, and biological events, many are not as prepared for other types of disasters, such as explosive or Read more...
Tenet settles Katrina lawsuit on emergency unpreparedness for $25M
In a lesson for hospitals everywhere, Tenet Healthcare Corporation's settlement for $25 million was preliminarily approved yesterday, to conclude a class-action lawsuit in which patients and families Read more...
Katrina lessons still flooding in
Even as they watch the devastation in Japan following last week's earthquakes, U.S. hospitals are still learning lessons from the fallout of 2005's Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Some big ones Read more...
New Orleans hospitals still recovering from Katrina
Five years after Hurricane Katrina barreled its way through New Orleans, flooding hospitals, the healthcare industry has yet to recover, WAPT reports. More than 80,000 residents in eastern New Read more...
Disaster recovery efforts for hospitals the focus of new AHRQ guides
Between a lack of emergency preparedness shown at hospitals during 2005's Hurricane Katrina and more recent findings that many California hospitals might not survive an earthquake without major Read more...
Doctors, nurses increasingly affected by mass layoffs at hospitals
With patient safety already slipping in the midst of the current recession, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing that clinical staff is being affected by mass layoffs now gives U.S. Read more...
Focus on disaster readiness could mean retrofitting, renovations for Calif. hospitals
As natural disasters like earthquakes and hurricanes are striking major population hubs worldwide, the underlying building structures of hospitals are coming under more scrutiny. For example, Read more...
Hospital damaged during Katrina settles with family over patient's death
Looks like we'll have to wait to find out if a hospital is liable for a patient's death if that facility were deemed to be unprepared for an emergency or natural disaster. The family of Althea Read more...
Bill would repay doctor accused of killing New Orleans patients after storm
A new bill pending in the Louisiana legislature would require the state to pay the legal bills incurred by Dr. Anna Pou, a physician accused of illegally euthanizing patients at New Orleans-based Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: New Orleans hospitals deep in the red
An area council has concluded that five private and community medical systems in the New Orleans area operated at a loss in 2008, a bad sign for an area strained even before Hurricane Katrina. Read more...
| Press ReleasesMedical House Calls Revived With the Help of iPad and EHRNurse Practitioner Scharmaine Lawson-Baker in New Orleans uses Practice Fusion's free, web-based EHR technology on her iPad to make house calls; defends patient records from natural disastersSAN Read more >> HCA Announces National 2010 Frist Humanitarian Award RecipientsNASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HCA (NYSE:HCA) today announced the recipients of the 2010 Frist Humanitarian Awards. Arnold Lemay, director of engineering, PBX & security at Frankfort Read more >> Tenet Announces Saint Louis University Hospital Appoints New Hospital CEOSaint Louis University Alum Returns as Hospital CEO DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tenet Healthcare Corporation (NYSE: THC) today announced that Saint Louis University Hospital appointed Phillip Sowa as Read more >> |
