Tulane University's Model for Neighborhood-Based Health Care

Dr. Karen DeSalvo, vice dean for community affairs and health policy at Tulane University, talks about the unexpected opportunities that came out of the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina to recreate a health care system in New Orleans.

As executive director of the Tulane Community Health Center at Covenant House, located on the edge of the French Quarter, Dr. DeSalvo is a proponent of neighborhood-based health care for the city of New Orleans. The Covenant House clinic opened in the days following Hurricane Katrina as a source for tetanus shots for residents in the French Quarter, Treme neighborhood and downtown New Orleans.

Tulane University continues to provide health care in in areas where it is needed. Tulane recently opened a new community health center in eastern New Orleans, offering low-cost, high-quality primary care to adults 18 or older. The Tulane Community Health Center New Orleans East is a partnership between Tulane University School of Medicine and Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corp.

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[kingsteak99]

She should run for Governor

[SteveSparx]

I attended Tulane 1978-82. May God Bless You Doctor. Stephen P Sparacio