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The complete results of a new door-to-door survey of people living in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes are now available online at www.popest.org.
For the next two days, nurses from around the area will practice fundamentals to care for Louisiana’s chronically ill residents in a disaster situation.
Officials with the Department of Health and Hospitals and with the Louisiana State Police announced today that the effort to find the remaining 136 people on the official missing list from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will transition from the Louisiana Family Assistance Center to local law enforcement agencies.
Officials with the Louisiana State Police and the Department of Health and Hospitals announce today that DNA identification efforts will continue with responsibility for any new cases shifting to local coroners’ offices.
Determining the population of areas affected by the hurricanes of 2005 has proven to be a difficult task. Now, to aid in this effort, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the Louisiana Recovery Authority and the Louisiana Public Health Institute have teamed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Census Bureau to conduct a rapid population estimate survey of six parishes in South Louisiana.
Health care providers who provided no-cost treatment for uninsured patients from six Hurricane Rita-affected parishes will be reimbursed through a pool of federal funds.
With the 2006 hurricane upon us, the Department of Health and Hospitals has adopted new regulations that require nursing facilities to be better prepared for an emergency, including evacuations. The regulations are effective today, June 1, 2006.
In the most recent of a series of emergency preparedness announcements, today Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco activated a four-step sheltering plan for the 2006 hurricane season. "We all pray this year will be a hurricane-free season for Louisiana," said Governor Blanco. "However, we stand prepared for several evacuations and are doing everything in our power to ensure a hurricane-safe season. That is why we have strengthened our sheltering capacity as part of our commitment to implement lessons learned from Katrina and Rita."
The Department of Health and Hospitals has received additional reports from other states about Louisiana residents who died following Hurricane Katrina. The latest revised reports show 480 total out-of-state-deaths. This is an increase of 281* deaths since DHH made its last report in February 2006.
Working in conjunction with staff from the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board, state health officials have removed a “boil water” advisory for one of the last areas of New Orleans that had remained under such as declaration. Boil advisories were issued following Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent of loss of water pressure throughout New Orleans.
Sometimes it’s good to be wrong.
The Department of Health and Hospitals announced today it has begun an orderly transition of all remaining responsibilities for the identification and release of deceased Hurricane Katrina victims to the Orleans Parish coroner.