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- Title
MANAGEMENT DILEMMA FOR HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE KATRINA.
- Authors
Lambert, John; Harrell, Adrine
- Abstract
This manuscript examines a unique management issue that confronted staff from three separate healthcare providers in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The deaths that occurred in the New Orleans area at St. Rita Nursing Home, Lafon Nursing Home, and Memorial Medical Center were followed by criminal investigations. For caregivers at two of the facilities, criminal indictments were issued. In the U.S., civil litigation in nearly all business arenas is commonplace, especially when there is the possibility that there has been negligence, or that a person has suffered injury or wrongful death. There was after Hurricane Katrina, however, the use of criminal prosecutorial action by the Louisiana Attorney General, which sought to criminalize the actions of healthcare givers who lost patients while facing the challenges of heretofore unheard of failure of levees and the catastrophic flooding that came as the result of those failures. The tragedies at each of the aforementioned healthcare facilities were examined, with attention given to reconstruction of the management decisions at each. The specter of criminal indictment and charges to managers and caregivers for each of the three healthcare facilities, is discussed. Healthcare management implications for the future now must include not only civil liability concerns but also the possibility of criminal prosecution.
- Subjects
NEW Orleans (La.); LOUISIANA; MANUSCRIPTS; HURRICANE Katrina, 2005; MEDICAL personnel; NURSING care facilities; FLOODS; LEVEES; INDICTMENTS; CAREGIVERS
- Publication
Academy of Health Care Management Journal, 2008, Vol 4, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
1559-7628
- Publication type
Article