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Health care infrastructure post-Katrina: disaster planning to return health care workers to their home communities.

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Griffies, WS
Published in: Psychiatr Serv
January 2010

One of the greatest challenges of restoring the New Orleans health care infrastructure since the post-Katrina disaster has been shortages of health care providers. Many providers had prolonged displacements or did not return to their practices, depleting the city of valuable resources. This Open Forum chronicles the displacement of Louisiana State University's Department of Psychiatry and discusses barriers to returning health care providers to their communities expeditiously. Predisaster planning and policy changes are proposed to facilitate a quicker return and decrease the attrition of health care providers after future disasters. A community's predisaster plans should include a mechanism to allow funds to follow patients instead of hospitals, to provide bridge funding that pays local health care providers to work as first responders and serve uninsured patients while these providers rebuild their practices, and to provide funds to quickly expand services and usable space in undamaged clinics and hospitals and to shore up reparable structures.

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Psychiatr Serv

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EISSN

1557-9700

Publication Date

January 2010

Volume

61

Issue

1

Start / End Page

70 / 73

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Workforce
  • Psychiatry
  • Physicians
  • New Orleans
  • Humans
  • Health Policy
  • Disaster Planning
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Cyclonic Storms
  • 4203 Health services and systems
 

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Griffies, W. S. (2010). Health care infrastructure post-Katrina: disaster planning to return health care workers to their home communities. Psychiatr Serv, 61(1), 70–73. https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2010.61.1.70
Griffies, W Scott. “Health care infrastructure post-Katrina: disaster planning to return health care workers to their home communities.Psychiatr Serv 61, no. 1 (January 2010): 70–73. https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2010.61.1.70.
Griffies, W. Scott. “Health care infrastructure post-Katrina: disaster planning to return health care workers to their home communities.Psychiatr Serv, vol. 61, no. 1, Jan. 2010, pp. 70–73. Pubmed, doi:10.1176/ps.2010.61.1.70.
Journal cover image

Published In

Psychiatr Serv

DOI

EISSN

1557-9700

Publication Date

January 2010

Volume

61

Issue

1

Start / End Page

70 / 73

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Workforce
  • Psychiatry
  • Physicians
  • New Orleans
  • Humans
  • Health Policy
  • Disaster Planning
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Cyclonic Storms
  • 4203 Health services and systems