Carlyle Group and deaths at LifeCare during Katrina

http://katysexposure.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/bob-kerreys-unusual-corporate-connections-tenet-healthcare/
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Bob was in a position of responsibility when Katrina struck. Tenet Healthcare owned Memorial Hospital, the facility with 34 total patient deaths. Twenty four deaths came from LifeCare Hospital’s long term acute care unit. LifeCare rented a floor from Memorial.
Unfortunately, the White House did not perform a really good investigation of Katrina. Frances Townsend’s Lessons Learned report made no mention of Tenet’s Memorial Hospital. It also omitted LifeCare, the hospital with the highest death toll in the storm.
The Carlyle Group purchased LifeCare Hospitals just weeks before Katrina’s landfall. The two corporations divied up liability in a secret settlement. Their attorneys blamed rogue clinicians. When that failed before a grand jury, they targeted the federal government. LifeCare claims patients became wards of the government when FEMA evacuation teams set up in New Orleans.
Tenet sold Memorial Hospital and Carlyle closed their LifeCare unit. Both firms stayed out of the limelight, thanks in part to White House silence in their February 2006 report.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenet_Healthcare
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