CHCA Hospitals Join in Relief Efforts
CHCA Owner Hospitals throughtout the region are joining in the relief effort. Read recent news stories here...
Janesville Gazette -- Greg Feirn, vice president of operations and research at Children's Hospital New Orleans, tells his story.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- A medical strike team is making house calls in Waveland, Miss., or at least the nearest thing to house calls in a coastal city where Hurricane Katrina flattened most houses.
HOUSTON, Texas -- One of America's most respected experts on traumatized and maltreated children is sounding the alarm for the "Children of Katrina," and Dr. Bruce Perry, Texas Children's Hospital, wants parents, first-responders and government leaders to rally to the call.
HOUSTON, Texas -- Many of the youngest survivors of Hurricane Katrina were already frail and vulnerable with illness before the storm hit. Nearly three dozen children from New Orleans are being treated at Texas Children's Hospital for everything from leukemia to cystic fibrosis.
The Arizona Republic -- Three doctors from Phoenix Children's Hospital are en route to Louisiana to work in a mobile medical RV that will aid victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The Daily Review -- Children's Hospital Oakland is among several California hospitals that are offering hundreds of volunteers to help with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort, but they may not be mobilized to the region for weeks or months, hospital officials said Wednesday.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Pediatric cancer patients from the Gulf Coast area in dire need of medical care continue to pour into St. Jude Children's Research Hospital affiliates in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana, with some of the most critically ill being airlifted directly to St. Jude in Memphis, Tennessee.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A pediatric specialist left New Orleans this week confident of one thing -- dedicated doctors and nurses at Louisiana hospitals excelled at preserving lives while their known world crumbled around them.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Twenty-seven young hurricane survivors and their families were evacuated to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City late Wednesday night.
Associted Press Writer -- Baby in Birmingham, family at New Orleans convention center - Zoe Holzenthal, one of seven ailing babies airlifted from Louisiana hospitals, some in a harrowing helicopter rescue, is now in Birmingham, Ala.
HOUSTON, Texas -- Six children needing serious medical care arrived aboard small planes from Louisiana on Wednesday, the first of a wave of patients being evacuated to Houston from New Orleans hospitals flooded by Hurricane Katrina.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- Imagine fleeing a hurricane and leaving your newborn baby behind in a hospital. Family reconnects at Cook-Fort Worth Children's.
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