Contest Entries

'After the Hurricane,' MedPage Today

Entrants:

Charles Bankhead

Affiliation: MedPage Today

Multimedia

Year: 2009

Provide a brief synopsis of the story or stories, including any significant findings.

Hurricanes can cause untold damage, some of it to the very facilities that ought to be caring for the injured. And sometimes it takes years to recover. MedPageToday chronicled -- in words and video -- the state of the iconic University of Texas Medical Branch a year after Hurricane Ike shut down that Galveston facility and the four-year transformation New Orleans healthcare has gone through post-Katrina.

Read "UTMB Rides Resiliency to Recovery and New Orleans Healthcare Heads in New Directions"

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