Miracles Will Happen
At my first Pebble Project Meeting in Houston it was a great pleasure to meet representatives of The Louisiana State University Healthcare Service Division, one of our newest Pebble Partners. (Long name, hereafter referred to as LSU.)
LSU, with its partners, is the largest provider of healthcare in Louisiana, with more than 1.2 million patient visits annually to 283 outpatient clinics and 49,000 admissions to eight hospitals. Mission-driven to care for the uninsured and provide training opportunities for future health professionals, LSU HCSD is a statewide safety net system in which everyone is eligible for care.
As a public health provider, the organization doesn’t fit the typical Pebble profile and it was extremely interesting to spend some time with them and hear the challenges they are up against as they work to rebuild after hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the region and battered their facilities.
Brian Massey of ADAMS Management Services Corporation, consultants on the project, was good enough to send me some pictures of LSU Charity Hospital in New Orleans in the early days after Katrina hit.
See the entire album on Flickr