Attorneys say they have won tentative approval for a multi-million-dollar deal to compensate more than 800 nursing home residents who were sent to a warehouse in Independence during Hurricane Ida.
It has been nearly a year since elderly residents were housed at a warehouse in Tangipahoa Parish, some elderly and in need of special medical attention. They were forced to sleep on mattresses on the floor, without adequate staff, and poor sanitation.
The Louisiana Department of Health moved in to shut down the inadequate shelter and took away the nursing home licenses of owner Bob Dean.
Dean faces several felony charges and is now out of jail on a $350,000 bond.
