Mental health care in New Orleans "remains the biggest hole in a safety net that
was decimated" by Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. The
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals in July found that only 42 of 208
psychiatrists in the four-parish New Orleans area were currently practicing and
that the number of psychiatric hospital beds in the region since the hurricane
has fallen from 462 to 190.
I bet everyone in New Orleans is feeling alot better.