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...community is still very much in intensive care, but the mental health needs are crushing," says Donald Smithburg, head of the Louisiana State University Health Care Services division, which oversees the state's charity care system. The stress, he says, is felt beyond New Orleans. Emergency rooms as far away as Baton Rouge and Lafayette have mentally ill patients "boarding" for days in emergency rooms, waiting for hospital admission, because there are no available psych beds in the New Orleans area...
...seen an increase in suicides, depression, substance abuse, and domestic violence. If you've driven the city, you see why. We've not made a lot of progress," says cardiologist Pat Breaux, past head of the Orleans Parish Medical Society. He is part of a 40-member Louisiana Health Care Redesign Collaborative making recommendations this fall on changes in the city's health care system to Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services...
Meanwhile, at the cost of infuriating parts of her own, progressive base, Pelosi has made a number of pragmatic, tactical moves to better position the Democrats for November. When Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson was found with $90,000 in his freezer from an apparent bribery scheme, Pelosi immediately had him tossed out of his seat on the House Ways and Means Committee. The strongly liberal Congressional Black Caucus was incensed that one of its members had been punished before he had even been indicted. But Pelosi's action helped rebut the G.O.P.'s contention that Democrats had as many corruption...
...Just because they are mixed, however, doesn't mean that the messages aren't all valid - and therein lies the marketing problem. "Our residential areas have been severely devastated," says Angele Davis, Louisiana's secretary of culture, recreation and tourism. "We're rebuilding those residential areas. But right now our tourism infrastructure is intact, and that's the message we have to get out there. If we don't, we will lose the small cultural venues and businesses, the music clubs and galleries and antique shops that make up the fabric of New Orleans. They're holding on. They...
...facing a difficult and protracted recovery. More than half the population is still in exile, and huge swaths of New Orleans remain largely abandoned while residents wait for rebuilding money to arrive. Citywide some 60% of local businesses have most likely not reopened, according to a survey by Louisiana State University...