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Flooding, Blackouts, Fuel Shortages Plague Home Care Providers In Wake Of Superstorm

Published on Thu Nov 08, 2012

Home care providers have been undertaking valiant measures to help patients impacted by Hurricane Sandy.Resourceful nurses, physical therapists, aides and other home care personnel surmounted flooding, impassable roads, downed trees and dwindling gasoline to get to their patients, reports National Public Radio. "It's just been incredible to see everybody step up, even though they themselves have been without child care, school's not in session, their homes are cold, they don't have much food, they're having to wait in line for hours and hours for gasoline," Dr. Steve Landers of VNA Health Group of New Jersey told the radio program. "I'm sort of speechless. It's just amazing.""I've been in very close contact with agencies throughout New Jersey and it's amazing what people are doing," added Sherl Brandt of the Home Care Association of New Jersey. "I don't know of any cases where people didn't get needed care." Home care staffers provided [...]
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