How many will stay, how many will repatriate to New Orleans has yet to be determined,.. But we know we have a responsibility to care for the underinsured, the uninsured.
Donald Smithburg
We're out of money, roughly after Thanksgiving.
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We are a bus crash away from complete and total disaster.
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We are seeing a domino effect as our Katrina- and Rita-related financial and personnel issues impact our other seven hospitals. With immediate help, we can keep the Charity system on its feet and continue to heal. Without it, Louisiana public health care will fall.
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[Louisiana's public hospital system is on the verge of financial collapse two months after Hurricane Katrina and needs federal aid quickly, the head of the system said.] We're out of money, roughly after Thanksgiving,.. We are running out of time.
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The (old) facilities are unusable for health care purposes,.. That doesn't mean the public hospital system is down and out.
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Should tour the facility so he can see for himself the extent of the damage.
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We've requested security for all of our facilities, but unfortunately we've almost tapped out our National Guard resources
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We've almost exhausted local resources,.. We are looking to interstate cooperation on into the next few days to handle this tremendous surge that is exhausting the health care resources and ultimately compromising many hundreds of sick people who are in our hospitals.
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The situation is grave
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