La. parish to get first hospital since Katrina
HAMMES CO. TO MANAGE 40-BED PROJECT SLATED FOR POSSIBLE GREENFIELD SITE
By John Mugford
Ever since Hurricane Katrina devastated southern Louisiana and other Gulf Coast towns, many residents of St. Bernard Parish east of New Orleans have relied on a mobile clinic in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store to provide most of their healthcare needs.
But in recent weeks, the St. Bernard Parish Hospital Service District (HSD) announced that it was moving forward with the building of a 40-bed hospital in Chalmette, La., about 20 miles from downtown New Orleans. Hammes Co. of Brookfield, Wis., recently signed a contract to manage the planning, design, construction and move-in transition for the first new hospital in the area since Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 19, 2005.
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