A settlement was reached yesterday in a class-action case over deaths at a News Orleans hospital following Hurricane Katrina.
About 2,000 patients and hospital workers were stranded at Memorial Medical Center (later renamed Ochsner Baptist Medical Center), with the hospital's lower level under ten feet of water. 45 bodies were eventually recovered from the hospital, more than from any other hospital in New Orleans. The suit was brought by patients and familes of patients who died at Memorial, claiming that the hospital did not have an adequate emergency plan for the storm.
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About 2,000 patients and hospital workers were stranded at Memorial Medical Center (later renamed Ochsner Baptist Medical Center), with the hospital's lower level under ten feet of water. 45 bodies were eventually recovered from the hospital, more than from any other hospital in New Orleans. The suit was brought by patients and familes of patients who died at Memorial, claiming that the hospital did not have an adequate emergency plan for the storm.
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Bloomberg Businessweek