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In post-Katrina New Orleans, efforts under way to build better health care.

ODDITY IS NOT A MEDICAL CONdition that can be treated or cured. But Fred Cerise, MD, says the sheer peculiarity of reassembling health care systems, jobs, and homes a year after Hurricane Katrina pummeled New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast hangs over health professionals in the city like a chronic illness. “Our biggest challenges have to do with just the oddity of this entire situation, of putting society back together en masse,” said Cerise, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, during an August briefing on the state of New Orleans’ health that was sponsored by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. “It’s not as if we are going to evolve back into normalcy here, and so we have issues dealing with work force and infrastructure that are just incredibly complicated,” he said. “When we look at work force issues, things like housing become such an important piece. That’s just hard to overcome.”