Interstate Transfer of Pediatric Patients During Hurricane Katrina

Moving hospitalized children all over the southeast: interstate transfer of pediatric patients during Hurricane Katrina.

PRACTICAL QUESTIONS: The question was, and is, “Can hospitalized children, in a geographic area, have their continuing medical needs met when capacity in that geographic area to provide care is exceeded?” Events after the landfall of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, generated significant information about pediatric care delivery during a disaster. In particular, Katrina ...

Hurricane Katrina--pediatric dentistry's response.

Pediatric private practice after Hurricane Katrina: proposal for recovery.

The health care system of the US Gulf Coast was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Physicians in the region have faced enormous financial and psychological challenges. Pediatricians have been particularly affected, because of the large number of children covered by Medicaid, with its associated low payments, and the failure of children and families to return to affected areas...

Disaster preparedness of dialysis patients for Hurricanes Gustav and Ike 2008.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita resulted in massive devastation of the Gulf Coast at Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas during 2005. Because of those disasters, dialysis providers, nephrologists, and dialysis patients used disaster planning activities to work to mitigate the morbidity and mortality associated with the 2005 hurricane season for future events affecting dialysis patients. As Hurricane ...

Tuberculosis Control Activities Before and After Hurricane Sandy — Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States, 2012

On October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy struck the U.S. northeast and mid-Atlantic seaboard; the effects of the storm extended to southeastern and midwestern states and to eastern Canada. At the time, 1,899 residents in the most affected areas were undergoing treatment for tuberculosis (TB) disease or infection. To ascertain the operational abilities of state and local TB programs during and after...