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Hospitals tackle training, challenges as part of disaster planning efforts
Making rounds at Charity Hospital in New Orleans required resilience after Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast.
"The water was just pouring in," Ruth Berggren, MD, told television news network CNN on August 31. "We were dodging water, ceiling tiles."
Soon after one of the deadliest hurricanes in American history made landfall southeast of New Orleans on August 29, levees protecting the city from Lake Pontchart-
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