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Emergency Response
In the immediate days and weeks after the disaster, AmeriCares delivered in-kind aid valued at more than $10 million to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and Alabama. These donations of medicines, hospital supplies and other materials critically filled unmet needs.
Among those who received aid from AmeriCares were the Children’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, Lafayette General Medical Center and the New Orleans Blood Center in Louisiana; Crosby Memorial Hospital, Mississippi Emergency Management Association, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Biloxi Regional Medical Center in Mississippi; San Antonio Metro Health District, San Jacinto Methodist Hospital, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and Harris County Hospital District in Texas.
The AmeriCares Free Clinics mobile health unit joined the relief effort early on, departing from Stamford, Connecticut, and traveling to Baton Rouge. The mobile medical clinic usually provides services to Connecticut’s uninsured working poor. For four weeks, it provided basic health care services for first responders in New Orleans as well as hundreds of displaced persons living in temporary shelters. The clinic was staffed with doctors and residents from Louisiana State University and Tulane University, as well as a volunteer team from the AmeriCares Free Clinics.
AmeriCares also filled myriad “unmet” needs in the course of the emergency response, transporting fire trucks and firefighting equipment from Connecticut cities to Kiln, Mississippi in October, for one example. In Louisiana, AmeriCares arranged for the donation and assembly of several large Sprung Structures in New Orleans’ St. Bernard Parish.
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