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[Westley Annis]

	sponsibility of someone's day-to-day care, that doesn't mean in fair
	weather also.

However, even IF all the nursing home residents were evacuated (Not just St
Rita, but all those other homes that stayed) they would have been in the
same predicament as the residents that DID evacuate, with staff and family
and pets who had also no home anymore, and NO PLACE TO RETURN to.
Those residents had evacuation sites or shelters for a temporary stay but
not permanent. 
Permanent placement had to be found for so many, and, having been on the
evacuating end, the  'trying to find placement' end and then on the
receiving end, there were many angry relatives who tried to find their loved
ones and finally did in other homes, where they were admitted without proper
information, without any family signing consents etc, and again one got
cussed for shanghai-ing (interesting word I learned) momma. 
Well, DHH begged the facilities to take in more people than they had rooms
or beds, hallways were crowded with people, just to be cursed out later,
suspiciously questioned, and in some cases fined for deficiencies resulting
from the overcrowding. Cant win when taking care of the aging. It is as if
the few healtcare workers who DO somehow feel called to work in this field,
get shit on literally and figuratively. 
I cant really take much of the criticism seriously from those who never
walked in those shoes.
 
Gaby   - working in longterm care for almost three decades.
To live only for some future goal is shallow. 
It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

-Robert M. Pirsig