hospitals during hurricane Katrina

Holcomb-Jones had her first two children in a traditional hospital setting. ... “If I didn't do what he [the doctor] said, he was going to throw me out of the hospital,” Holcomb-Jones said. ... After being displaced by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005, Hill and her family moved from the Gulf Coast to Tupelo.

Prison authorities rushed him to Charity Hospital in New Orleans, but then Hurricane Katrina struck. In the chaos, Brauner found himself re-routed to Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola prison. There he was told he'd find a larger facility with better resources to treat inmates needing medical ...

Then came botched efforts to deal with the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the inadequate financial regulation that contributed to the 2008 financial meltdown, the ... In 2014 Americans learned VA hospitals were making military veterans wait far longer than the targeted 14-day period to receive services.

Prison authorities rushed him to Charity Hospital in New Orleans, but then Hurricane Katrina struck. In the chaos, Brauner found himself re-routed to Louisiana State Penitentiary, better known as Angola prison. There he was told he'd find a larger facility with better resources to treat inmates needing medical ...

Grady Memorial Hospital has extended the lease on its mobile ER through March. The Atlanta hospital opened the mobile unit in late January to handle its increasing emergency department patient volume. Flu-related hospitalizations in Georgia have soared through the first weeks of 2018. But the latest ...

Shreveport, LA - You might be asking the question: How prepared are our hospitals for a mass casualty event, like the one in Parkland, Florida? Knox Andress gave KTBS some answers on Friday. Andress is the coordinator for Louisiana Region 7 Hospital Preparedness Coalition, a group formed after the ...

A year after Katrina's floodwaters filled the building's basement, it was clear that the state was moving away from the idea of reopening Charity Hospital at the same location. An interim hospital was established and the political wheels started turning for an alternative to Charity, despite opposition from some ...

“the American government's pride dictated that their own citizens had to die on the roofs of their houses, or on the roofs of hospitals from which no-one evacuated them, or in stadiums, or in nursing homes where some of them were given euthanasia in order to prevent a horrible death by drowning. That's the ...

It's Set In in New Orleans During Hurricane Katrina. The story will specifically take place at Memorial Medical Center, the New Orleans hospital that was left without power for days and completely overwhelmed with casualties following the hurricane. It will also focus on the decisions of on-duty doctor Anna ...