Louisiana Yanks Nursing Home Licenses After 7 Residents Die Amid Hurricane Ida

Paramedics evacuate people at a mass shelter in Independence, La., on Sept. 2, 2021. Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP

Officials in Louisiana have pulled licenses for seven nursing homes across four parishes after residents were taken to a warehouse ahead of Hurricane Ida and subjected to what officials say were substandard conditions.

More than 800 residents were taken to the Tangipahoa Parish warehouse. Seven died, and more than a dozen others required hospital care.