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Renovated New Orleans Care Facility Reopens, Reuniting Residents and Staff
October 5th, 2007
Residents and staff of St. Margaret's Daughters' Home in New Orleans will be reunited in a temporary facility this month, two years after they evacuated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The 116-bed eldercare facility was destroyed when Katrina's storm surge overwhelmed the levees in the city's Ninth Ward. While everyone at St. Margaret's was evacuated safely before the storm, federal disaster officials deemed the building unsalvageable after it was flooded and filled with four-to-six feet of standing water for two weeks. St. Margaret's officials immediately began the search for a new home - a process that culminates at 10 a.m. (CDT) today with a...
Source: Health Business Week (2007-10-05)
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