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Louisiana 47th in Health Quality for 2009
Written by United Health Foundation Sunday, 21 March 2010 22:41
Louisiana ranked 47th in health quality in 2009. The state faces numerous challenges including a low high school graduation rate with 59.5 percent of incoming ninth graders who graduate within four years, a high incidence of infectious disease at 25.1 cases per 100,000 population, a high rate of uninsured population at 19.3 percent, a high percentage of children in poverty at 23.3 percent of persons under age 18, a high rate of preventable hospitalizations with 99.6 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees, a high infant mortality rate at 10.0 deaths per 1,000 live births, a high premature death rate with 10,614 years of potential life lost before age 75 per 100,000 population and a high rate of cancer deaths at 221.1 deaths per 100,000 population.
Too Few Beds and a Feud Plague DoctorTraining Program in New Orleans
Written by KATHERINE MANGAN, The Chronicle for Higher Education Friday, 22 May 2009 00:00
A New Orleans teaching hospital that is still struggling to recover from the effects of Hurricane
Katrina faces budget cuts and new questions about its ability to continue training 300 medical
residents and fellows from Louisiana State University and Tulane University. The uncertainty
has been fed by a feud between the two universities over the facility and one that is planned to
replace it.
Medical services in New Orleans
Written by The Economist Saturday, 14 March 2009 00:00
HURRICANE KATRINA’S effect on the city of New Orleans has been much longer-lasting than most expected. Almost four years after the storm, a quarter of the population has never returned.…
Smoked Out: Musicians want breathing room at local venues
Written by Emilie Bahr, New Orleans City Business Monday, 22 September 2008 00:00
There was a time when Pierre Pichon spent nearly every night of the week plying from the strings of his guitar the sounds that garnered his gypsy jazz band a faithful following at local music clubs. Today, his appearances are limited to a few private performances, agreed upon only once he is certain he won’t spend hours in a smoke-filled venue.
The change began last Mardi Gras when the 40-year-old guitarist, formerly of the band Vavavoom, contracted a strain of the flu that put him on his back for almost a month. Alarmed by his body’s vulnerability and hoping to hasten his recovery, he quit smoking and abandoned most of his regular gigs...
It ain't easy in the Big Easy
Written by Larry Blumenfeld, Salon.com Tuesday, 28 August 2007 00:00
While well-meaning programs seek to restore New Orleans' battered "cultural wetlands," two years after Katrina many musicians still struggle to survive.
Ronald Lewis, a retired streetcar-track repairman with a homemade culture museum in the backyard of his restored Lower Ninth Ward house, doesn't think much about anniversaries. "But if it helps people understand my life and the lives of other people here in New Orleans," he said on Sunday, "if it makes them think about why we're here and we won't leave, let 'em have an anniversary."
