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Katrina Update...Your Generosity At Work 

I certainly want to extend our thanks to you and the other kind and thoughtful members of CARES who have sent assistance to help get the pediatric endocrine services in New Orleans back in order and tide us over in the coming years of rebuilding. We foresee a multiyear rebuilding program at the hospital. We have made an effort to find our former patients scattered around the area and extend services to them. We have new clinical outreach to Baton Rouge and Lafayette, Louisiana. In addition, we had the only fellowship training program for pediatric endocrinology in the area. Two of our fellows have returned and are busily engaged in their training. The contribution of the CARES program will be most helpful to us in maintaining the quality of the fellowship program. The monies will help us bridge the gap in local resources in the aftermath of the hurricane.

We were the recipients of a number of computers from members of CARES and we will use them to facilitate the transition to electronic medical records. When we were displaced from the main hospital we lost all access to records and charts of our patients. We hope that in the new era we will have access to records electronically wherever we may be. In addition accessibility of the staff to extra computer work stations should enhance our research efforts as well. The donation of those computers has obviously freed up resources to be used in other aspects of the recovery.

Once again, thanks to all the membership from the faculty and staff of Pediatric Endocrinology at the Children's Hospital of New Orleans and best wishes to all for the upcoming holiday season.
 

-Stuart Chalew, M.D., Director of Endocrinology, Children’s Hospital New Orleans

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