NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 24
WHAT: Availability to news media of physicians, community leaders and others involved in post-Katrina health care.
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WHO: Dr. Mark Alain Dery, a practicing internist with Tulane University Medical School who specializes in infectious diseases. He treated Katrina survivors and recently treated earthquake survivors in Haiti. Dr. Rani Whitfield, a practicing primary care physician, who treated patients who lost everything in the wake of Katrina. He also can speak about the HIV/AIDS epidemic following Katrina. Meshawn Tarver, executive director, Common Ground Health Clinic. Nicole Lamoureux, executive director, National Association of Free Clinics. Representatives of Algiers Economic Development Foundation. New Orleans citizens and Katrina survivors.
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WHERE: Common Ground Health Clinic, 1400 Teche Street (Algiers), New Orleans. (For more information, go to: http://www.commongroundclinic.org/.)
WHEN: Wednesday, August 25, at 3:00 p.m.
WHY: To provide information about health care in New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina and discuss large, two-day free clinic on Aug. 31-Sept. 1.
About Common Ground Health Clinic:
Common Ground Health Clinic started Sept. 10, 2005, twelve days after levees breached and New Orleans was under a national mandatory evacuation. Algiers community leaders set up a makeshift health clinic/shelter refuge for those who did not or could not leave the city. Doctors, residents, physical therapists, medical students, registered nurses, alternative medicine practitioners, and nurse practitioners traveled from around the country to "Common Ground" headquarters. Five years later, the clinic is helping to meet the health care needs of the community.
SOURCE Common Ground Health Clinic
