At Nursing Home, Katrina Dealt Only the First Blow
For Days, Nuns Labored in Fatal Heat to Get Help for Patients
The fatal mistake:
But at Lafon, the nursing home run by the order, more than 100 other elderly patients stayed where they were. Sister Augustine McDaniel, the nursing home's administrator, had weathered other hurricanes in her 68 years and decided that she -- and the patients in her care -- would tough this one out, too.
Faced with moving her fragile patients on jammed roadways, or keeping them at Lafon, a sturdy, low brick building that had survived other hurricanes, McDaniel decided her staff and patients would be better off staying. If things got rough, she would move everyone to the second floor.
The result:
Originally told 14 had died, officials eventually recovered 22 corpses.
Read the entire sad story. There are more tragic nursing home stories to come.
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