Providing Assistance to Communities in Crisis:
CHF Taking the Lead

The Children's Health Fund has provided urgently needed medical assistance via its state-of-the-art Mobile Medical Units to victims of Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1992, and at ground zero in New York City after the terror attacks of 9/11. With this experience gained in working with communities in crisis, CHF responded to the urgent health and public health needs of the Gulf Coast region that resulted from Hurricane Katrina by establishing Operation Assist, a collaboration with the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Operation Assist is poised to meet the challenges that will persist well into the future of this devastated region.

More than 13,500 People Treated in the Devastated Gulf Coast Region

 

Operation Assist In The News:

View The New York Times Front Page Coverage of Public Health Survey
April 18, 2006 (PDF, 5.2 MB)

View The New York Times Editorial, "Katrina Lessons"
April 21, 2006 (PDF, 168 KB)

View The New York Times Op-Ed,"Orphans of the Storm" by Irwin Redlener, MD
May 09, 2006 (PDF, 529 KB)

CHF's Call to Action: A Health Care "Marshall Plan" – Public Health Survey Summary:

• Click Here to download the Health Care Marshall Plan with Public Health Survey Summary, April 17, 2006.
• To obtain a complete copy of the survey and findings please email Alison Greene at agreene@chfund.org

Learn more about Operation Assist:

Read Six Month Report (PDF, 124 KB)

Learn more about our permanent programs in the Gulf Coast:

• Baton Rouge Children’s Health Project
• Mississippi Gulf Coast Children’s Health Project
• New Orleans Children’s Health Project

Photos of Operation Assist

Slide Show 1 (Hurricane Katrina 2005)
Slide Show 2 (Hurricane Katrina 2005: Our Continued Work)