Locating Hurricane Survivors Placed in Facilities

Article Publication Date:

9/26/2005

Summary:

Dr. Margaret Giannini, Director of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office on Disability needs our help to locate hurricane survivors who were placed in nursing homes and other restrictive facilities. HHS is enlisting our help so they can work with HUD to get these folks back out of the nursing homes and into temporary housing in the community. The attached memo details ways you can send specific information about survivors.

Topics:

N/A

Types/Tools:

Announcement/Press release

Populations:

Developmental/Intellectual Disabilities; Physical Disabilities

Sources:

HHS Office on Disability and National Spinal Cord Injury Association

Programs/Initiatives:

N/A

States:

All States/Territories; Louisiana; Mississippi