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    Weak enforcement makes many nursing home disaster plans ‘paper tigers’

    Around the country, nursing homes have been caught unprepared for far more mundane emergencies than the recent hurricanes.
    by Jordan Rau — Kaiser Health News Sep 20, 2017 3 minutes
    Police Chief Tomas Sanchez addresses the media outside a rehabilitation center where eight patients were found dead in Hollywood, Fla.

    It does not take a hurricane to put nursing home residents at risk when disaster strikes.

    Around the country, facilities have been caught unprepared for far more mundane emergencies than the hurricanes that recently struck Florida and Houston, according to an examination of federal inspection records. Those homes rarely face severe reprimands, records show, even when inspectors identify repeated lapses.

    In some cases, nursing homes failed to prepare for basic contingencies.

    In one visit last May, inspectors found that an

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