New Orleans Recovery Is Slowed by Closed Hospitals
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Of all the factors blocking the revival of New Orleans, the shattered health care system may be the most important.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 -- An iconic local hospital built after the 1965 Watts riots to serve an area made up mostly of African Americans will lose its federal funding next week, officials announced Friday, pushing Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital one step closer to closing for good.
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The recovery of New Orleans slowly drags on two years after Hurricane Katrina but one thing back in full swing since the killer storm is crime, particularly murders.
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Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly  50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane  Katrina, in part because of storm-related damage to its public  health facilities, researchers said on Thursday.
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PASS CHRISTIAN, Mississippi  - When hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans it also ravaged a series of small towns. Nearly two years later they have faded from the spotlight but are still struggling to rebuild.
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One of the city&#39;s principal hospitals has referred 980 surgeries to three private hospitals because of nursing shortages in the operating rooms, authorities have confirmed.
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Since Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans city government has taken steps such as consolidating remote operations into its main data center and adding Web services and GIS technology to help it track reconstruction activities.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- Since flash floods swept away more than 2,000 residents here this fall, the recovery effort in Haiti's third-largest city has been agonizingly slow and dangerous.
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Fewer than 190,000 people are living in New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina, according to a door-to-door survey released Thursday.
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Service was restored Monday for residents of a Louisiana city where Tropical Storm Matthew broke a water main, but residents of some coastal areas were still waiting for a wind shift to push high water back out to sea.
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New Orleans residents depressed by the city's slow rebound 15 months after Hurricane Katrina have a chance to pick a new voice in Washington on Saturday but their frustration is likely to keep many from the voting booth.
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Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly 50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, in part because of storm-related damage to its public health facilities, researchers said on Thursday.
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A New Orleans doctor who rode out Katrina and is working to rebuild the cityâs health care system talks about the challenges and rewards of practicing medicine in the devastated city.
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By Kat Bergeron, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 15--If you're on the front line of Hurricane Katrina recovery, you're likely exhausted and have put aside many personal necessities as you help others. You don't feel you can claim time for yourself.
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Though the climax of Mardi Gras is still to come, official data so far from the second celebration since Hurricane Katrina show a city on the rebound.
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Monday she wants to temporarily reopen the New Orleans public housing projects that have been closed since Hurricane Katrina, despite federal plans to demolish them.
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Contractors hired to clean up after Hurricane Katrina are fuming over delays in getting paid by FEMA, and some fear the red tape will discourage companies from bidding on the big rebuilding projects that lie ahead for New Orleans.