Katrina: Why No Contingency Plans to Evacuate Hospitals?

Here, the hospitals put on yearly drills to see if they are prepared for a major catastrophe. Why did not the city, state or federal government have contingency to evacuate hospitals, care homes, etc.?

I thought the city did have a plan…it just wasn’t implimented.

-XT

In the Official Plan each hospital and nursing home was required to have their own evacuation plan (and this was supposed to be in place in order to be granted a licence).

A link to the plan exist on many other Katrina threads - didn’t think duplication was necessary