Documents taken from hospitals where patients died after Katrina

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10/3/2005, 3:47 p.m. CT
The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Investigators are piecing together evidence in the probe of Louisiana hospitals and nursing homes where dozens of elderly patients died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

At a legislative committee hearing Monday, Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti said six hospitals and 13 nursing homes were being investigated. Foti said the probe includes Charity Hospital, New Orleans' major public hospital.

"We are looking at all cases where deaths occurred as a result of the hurricane," said Kris Wartelle, Foti's spokeswoman.

The attorney general is looking into whether nursing homes or hospitals mishandled evacuations of patients, abandoned them during Katrina or euthanized people to spare them further pain when rescuers didn't arrive.

Times-Picayune/AP Article

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Shouldn't it be has a result of Bush's incompetence

Most of these people survived the hurricane. It was the flood and HS/FEMA's refusal to deliver services and assistance that cause their deaths.

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2. here's more

Prosecutors have kept the investigations under wraps, but Tenet Healthcare Corp. issued a news release Sunday saying attorney general's agents seized records and other material from its Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans.

Wartelle confirmed the company's report but refused to discuss details. She said the investigation is being led by the attorney general's Medicaid fraud control unit, which specializes in "abuse, neglect or exploitation of the elderly and the disabled."

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3. can you say future GOP voters?

I thought you could. ;-)

[Megahurtz]

4. Oh Hell Yeah!!!

Shred the evidence! CYA!!!

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