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Eighteen months after the country's worst natural disaster, New Orleans is still struggling to recover. The city -- both its population and landscape -- has changed in profound ways. While the initial exodus of healthcare professionals may have leveled off, the nursing shortage is having a tremendous impact on the city.
In March, local medical authorities told Congress that the healthcare structure in New Orleans is as tenuous and critically ill as the patients themselves. While hospitals search for nurses and healthcare workers, the residents of the city are battling slow progress, depression, high insurance rates, and a crime wave that seems out of control for a city already accustomed to violence.
Those who have stayed in the city or returned since Katrina say there's a chance that even more people may leave in the future.
Nurses in high demand :
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