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Medical evacuation flights from Haiti to the U.S. started up again after HHS officials said hospitals can receive federal payments equal to 110% of Medicare rates for providing care to Haitians.
A flight last night took 17 patients to Palm Beach, according to the Miami Herald. (That’s one of the arrivals in the […]
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External fixators — like the rig pictured at right — can work wonders for fractures.
But in post-earthquake Haiti, a fixator can also be a liability. A few days ago, a patient showed up at a field hospital near the Port-au-Prince airport with an advanced infection around the pin sites in a fixator […]
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More than 350 people who were hurt in the Haiti earthquake were evacuated to hospitals in South Florida.
The U.S. military is still evacuating some people for medical treatment, but now they’re being waved off from South Florida and sent farther north — in part to make sure emergency rooms in and around […]
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The USNS Comfort, a converted supertanker that is now a Navy hospital ship, opened its 12 operating rooms and 1,000 beds to Haiti earthquake victims even before it dropped anchor off Port-au-Prince.
Patients started landing Tuesday night via helicopter, including some that had been temporarily cared for on the aircraft carrier USS Carl […]
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With many medical facilities damaged or destroyed in the earthquake, doctors and aid organizations are scrambling today to care for severely injured patients in Haiti. But once the most immediate phase of the crisis passes, massive public health problems will remain.
“Right now, you have the acute devastation people dead, dying,” Warren […]
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