Open AccessResidency Support During a Natural Disaster: Hurricane Ida
Author(s) -
Tiffany Chang,
Elizabeth Kelly,
Chi Dola
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
hca healthcare journal of medicine
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2690-3830
pISSN - 2689-0216
DOI - 10.36518/2689-0216.1363
Subject(s) - natural disaster , resilience (materials science) , hurricane katrina , workforce , community resilience , face (sociological concept) , institution , natural resource , business , environmental planning , political science , medical emergency , geography , medicine , engineering , sociology , meteorology , social science , physics , redundancy (engineering) , law , reliability engineering , thermodynamics
Description 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.