2016 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 14
BY SENATOR BISHOP
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To urge and request the New Orleans East Hospital to become a Diabetes Education and
Research Center.
WHEREAS, New Orleans East, Gentilly and the Lower 9th Ward were all devastated
during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, losing most of the areas' residents and medical
infrastructure, including the storm-ravaged Methodist Hospital; and
WHEREAS, an urgent care clinic was available to residents, but there was no
hospital until 2014 when the New Orleans East Hospital, Orleans Parish Hospital Service
District A, opened with a mission to provide superior quality health care and educational
empowerment to the community; and
WHEREAS, a key component to educational empowerment is understanding chronic
diseases such as diabetes; and
WHEREAS, according to the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2014
Diabetes Report Card, among adults, about 1.7 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed
each year; and
WHEREAS, the CDC has identified several risk factors that contribute to diabetes
including increased age, lack of physical activity, a family history of diabetes, certain
socioeconomic conditions, obesity, and race and ethnicity; and
WHEREAS, these risk factors are prevalent in the New Orleans East area, but
without appropriate education on the disease, many people may not even know that they
have it and those who have it may not be managing it most appropriately; and
WHEREAS, it would be in the best interest of the New Orleans East Hospital and
the community served by that hospital if it were a Diabetes Education and Research Center.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana hereby urges
and requests the New Orleans East Hospital to pursue recognition as a Diabetes Education
and Research Center.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
CEO of the New Orleans East Hospital.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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