Last month, Baptist Hospital uptown (now owned by Ochsner) reopened its Emergency Room, giving uptown residents more convenient access to emergency healthcare. The openning has since been praised as another step towards recovery, since access to healthcare in New Orleans has been limited since Katrina. However, a story published in the Times-Picayune sheds light on [...]
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Written by David Eber
AVODAH Corps Member, 2008-09
AVODAH is alive and kicking in New Orleans! Just to make it official though we had an AVODAH Launch party.
We held it on October 19th on a wonderfully sunny Sunday afternoon. Guests were in from all over the country, including a contingent from New York. Most, however, [...]
Orientation Retreat, August 2008
Top row (left to right): David Eber, Ora Nitkin-Kaner, Yaeli Brontein
Middle row: Jenna Pollock, Meredith Grabek, Ariana Kolins, Joshua Lichtman (Program Director for AVODAH New Orleans)
Front row: Rachel Lee, Rebecca Waxman, Eliza Baron
Eliza Baron, from Millburn, NJ, graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst this [...]
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