Hospitals in Hurricane Katrina: Challenges Facing Custodial Institutions in a Disaster

Contributing Organization(s): Urban Institute


Author(s)/Creator(s): Bradford Gray; Kathy Hebert

Publishing Date: 2006-07-01

Issue Areas: Health and Medicine

Ownership/Rights Info: Copyright July 2006. The Urban Institute. All rights reserved. Except for short quotes, no part of this paper may be reproduced in any form or used in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the Urban Institute.

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Hospitals were part of the problem and the solution during the Hurricane Katrina crisis. They cared for some of the city's most vulnerable people, but they also presented some of its most difficult challenges once flooding made evacuation necessary.

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