Public Accountability Requires Citizen Action (disasteraccountability.org)
Volunteer nurses flown to the Gulf Region in anticipation of Hurricane Isaac will face unnecessary setbacks in the delivery of care because of Mississippi’s inability to pass the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioner Act (UEVHPA), which died this year in the state legislature. The uniform law, which has been adopted by Louisiana and 12 other states, [...]
The Associated Press shed light on a new report by the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services exposing major gaps in nursing home preparedness. These gaps could lead to many of the same horrific events that followed Hurricane Katrina where “a Houston Chronicle investigation found that at least 139 nursing [...]