To evacuate or not to evacuate: lessons learned from Louisiana nursing home administrators following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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A comparison of the nursing home evacuation experience between hurricanes katrina (2005) and gustav (2008).

BACKGROUND One of the tragic legacies of Hurricane Katrina was the loss of life among Louisiana (LA) nursing home (NH) residents. Katrina revealed a staggering lack of emergency preparation and understanding of how to safely evacuate frail populations. Three years later, LA braced for Hurricane Gustav, a storm heralded to rival Katrina's power. Although its magnitude of destruction ultimately p...

The controversy inherent in managing frail nursing home residents during complex hurricane emergencies.

Emergency planning for vulnerable populations constitutes a major element of community disaster preparedness and is an area in which guidance is particularly sparse. As evidenced by the well-publicized deaths of nursing home residents following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the need to improve nursing home emergency preparedness is self-evident. Nevertheless, as efforts to improve preparedness d...

To evacuate or shelter in place: implications of universal hurricane evacuation policies on nursing home residents.

OBJECTIVE To examine the differential morbidity/mortality associated with evacuation versus sheltering in place for nursing home (NH) residents exposed to the 4 most recent Gulf hurricanes. METHODS Observational study using Medicare claims and NH data sources. We compared the differential mortality/morbidity for long-stay residents exposed to 4 recent hurricanes (Katrina, Rita, Gustav, and Ik...

Bivariate Splines for Hurricane Path Forecasting

Every year, hurricanes cause a lot of damage, especially, when they hit cities along the coast line. A notorious example is Hurricane Katrina in 2005 which hit New Orleans and damaged the city significantly. Human intervention cannot change the path of a hurricane. Hence the best possible way to reduce the damage is to predict the path of the hurricane and avoid direct contact. The formation, m...