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. 2020 Oct;110(10):1472-1475.
doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305843. Epub 2020 Aug 20.

Fifteen Years After Katrina: Paving the Way for Health Care Transformation

Shelina Davis  1 , Alexander Billioux  1 , Jennifer L Avegno  1 , Tiffany Netters  1 , Gerrelda Davis  1 , Karen DeSalvo  1
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Fifteen Years After Katrina: Paving the Way for Health Care Transformation

Shelina Davis et al. Am J Public Health. 2020 Oct.

Abstract

Following the devastation of the Greater New Orleans, Louisiana, region by Hurricane Katrina, 25 nonprofit health care organizations in partnership with public and private stakeholders worked to build a community-based primary care and behavioral health network. The work was made possible in large part by a $100 million federal award, the Primary Care Access Stabilization Grant, which paved the way for innovative and sustained public health and health care transformation across the Greater New Orleans area and the state of Louisiana.

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Increases in Patient Volumes in Primary Care Access Stabilization Grant: Louisiana, 2007 to 2011
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