NEW ORLEANS – Larry Stansberry is looking forward to Oct. 1. That's when he thinks he will finally put Hurricane Katrina behind him.
Mr. Stansberry, chief executive officer of St. Margaret's Nursing Home, expects to welcome some former residents to the new home in the Ninth Ward that replaced one wiped out by the hurricane.
"It's been an incredibly hard two years coming back from the storm," Mr. Stansberry said.
That's true for many nursing homes that operated in the path of the Aug. 29, 2005, storm.
Nursing-home beds in New Orleans decreased 42 percent from 2,343 to 1,355 after the storm, according to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. The number of nursing homes and elderly-care centers also declined 42 percent, from 19 to 11.
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