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Enhancing Breast Cancer Screening In Kims Clinic: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Daniel J. Avila Castillo, Crystal Ike, Mina Choudhry Jan 2024

Enhancing Breast Cancer Screening In Kims Clinic: A Quality Improvement Initiative, Daniel J. Avila Castillo, Crystal Ike, Mina Choudhry

Gulf Coast Division GME Research Symposium 2024

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Residency Support During A Natural Disaster: Hurricane Ida, Tiffany Chang, Elizabeth W. Kelly, Chi Dola Oct 2021

Residency Support During A Natural Disaster: Hurricane Ida, Tiffany Chang, Elizabeth W. Kelly, Chi Dola

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine

Natural disasters can have extraordinary impacts on a community and its infrastructure. Disasters can weaken systems that provide crucial resources, such as shelter, food security, water and health care. Recently, southeast Louisiana sustained devastating damage from Hurricane Ida on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Our medical workforce faced challenges caring for patients in a facility without potable water and powered by a generator. With the support of corporate entities and our academic institution, however, these barriers were quickly overcome and thus highlights the importance of collective resilience in the face of a natural disaster.