Nurse Turns Home into Lower 9th Ward Health Clinic


	Nurse Turns Home into Lower 9th Ward Health Clinic

urbanlife

1-15-2008 1:45 PM

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neighborhood, clinic, healthcare, new orleans, katrina, charity, community

urbanlife says:

After Katrina, the Charity Hospital, which for generations provided care to the poor and uninsured, did not re-open. There are plans for new hospitals, but no one expects a system as extensive as the one pre-Katrina.

Neighborhood clinics like this one will be the future of health care in New Orleans.

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