NEW ORLEANS — WWL-TV’s Anchor/Investigative Reporter Katie Moore has been nominated for a National Emmy Award in Investigative Reporting for her series of stories about “The Man Behind the Warehouse.”
She is one of five finalists from across the nation to receive the nomination. The Winners will be presented live at the Palladium Times Square in New York City Wednesday, September 27th.
Katie’s three-part investigation took a deep dive into how more than 800 nursing home residents ended up in squalor in a Tangipahoa Parish warehouse after Hurricane Ida.
The series laid out a timeline of how the situation unfolded, exposing how the Louisiana Department of Health, which regulates nursing homes and nursing home evacuations, signed off on the facility in the days prior.
The reporting contributed to the changing of laws regarding nursing homes’ evacuation plans that have to be filed with LDH.
The series profiled the struggles of New Orleans photographer Michael Terranova, who had been a resident of Maison Orleans nursing following a stroke. He survived the evacuation and was taken across the state to a safer facility, a hardship for his family, but a relief for his safety. It also told the emotional story of Ernie Galiano, who survived the evacuation warehouse only to pass away later of health problems his family says were caused by the squalid evacuation conditions.
The series also brought to light the payments the nursing homes made to their owner’s parent company for the use of the inadequate evacuation site, a scheme that would lead to a US Department of Justice civil case.
Moore was honored with a Suncoast Regional Emmy Award for investigative series last year, opening the door for the national competition.