NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 -- A steady stream of elderly patients, infants in incubators and others among the city's most vulnerable ill residents left this weekend via a fleet of ambulances, underscoring the effort by local health officials to avoid the missteps that occurred during Hurricane Katrina... -
Hospitals Evacuating High-Risk Patients
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31 -- A steady stream of elderly patients, infants in incubators and others among the city's most vulnerable ill residents left this weekend via a fleet of ambulances, underscoring the effort by local health officials to avoid the missteps that occurred during Hurricane Katrina...-
By David Montgomery and Philip Rucker