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Recovery Continues
Hurricanes Katrina/Rita/Wilma
HCRN Volunteers do make a difference!
Over 1300 volunteers in LA. MS. AL. FL
- Providing Louisiana with Medical teams in Alexandria, Lake Charles and Thibodaux
- Door to door medical assessments in Mississippi.
- Will continue to provide medical assistance in Mississippi (we are opening clinics in Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Waveland and Pearlington)
- Immunization Clinics ( 150-200 immunizations per day )
- Lives saved: 5
- Caring for 361 patients and care givers per week in Louisiana; an average of 120 patients a day were seen in Lake Charles alone.
- Chain saw and debris clean up, home repairs and several church repairs in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.
- Teams deployed weekly to:
- Mobile, AL.
- Biloxi, MS.
- Gulf Port, MS.
- Ocean Springs, MS.
- Alexandria, LA.
- Saint Bernard's Parrish, LA.
- Lake Charles, LA. - Delivered 23 semi loads of food, water and cleaning supplies (Mobile, East Biloxi, Slidell, Lake Charles)
- Assisted with food distribution in East Biloxi and Lake Charles
- We are opening a base camp in East Biloxi end of October to begin home repairs and rebuilds.
- Have scheduled an additional 200 volunteers in the next 3 weeks.
- HCRN Doctors have logged 5400 hrs at $ 135.00 per hour for a total of $729,000 in-kind labor
- HCRN Nurses and RTT have logged 21,672 hours at $ 32.00 per hour for a total of $693,504 in - kind labor
- HCRN Work crews have logged 31,500 hours at $ 16.16 per hour for a total of $509,040 in-kind labor
- Total HCRN volunteer hours 58,572 of labor at a $ amount of $1,931,544 of in-kind labor.
Estimated $ of in-kind donated goods $505,000 used and sent.This is not possible without the generous contributions and support of the following:
- Governor Mitch Daniels
- Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives ( Paula Parker Sawyers )
- Mayor David Miller and the City of Elkhart
- Indiana Department of Homeland Security
- Susan Jensen at FEMA
- Republic Air has transported 6 groups of volunteers to LA. (70 passenger Jet) and 2 additional flights brought back evacuees.
- Feed the Children
- The Chapel ( Rick and Cathy Hawks )
- Churches in Ft. Wayne, Indiana
- WFRN Radio (Jim Carter)
- Bill and Gerry Griffith
- Denison Corporation of Indianapolis
- Paul Kite-Private Aircraft (2 Trips)
- Jeff Saturday, Indianapolis Colts
- Najeed Khan-Private Aircraft
- Randy Sharkey- Private Aircraft
- Gary Probst- Private Aircraft
- George Huber- Private Aircraft
- Star America Bus-line discounted bus rate
- Semi trucks and trailers from an array of private carriers
- Over $ 50,000 of in-kind medical supplies
- $ 225,000 in food and cleaning supplies
- 2200 new volunteers registered which 1150 will have been deployed as of 10-2-05. Over 52.27 % of volunteers have been deployed.
- Southwestern Medical Clinic
- Clarian Health Systems
- Goshen General Hospital
- Parkview Health
- Jasper Memorial Hospital
- Deaconess Hospital
- Ft Wayne Cardiology & Vascular
| The Chapel, Ft. Wayne | Fellowship Missionary Ft. Wayne |
| River Oaks, Elkhart | Brookside Community Ft. Wayne |
| Northside Nazarene, Elkhart | Taylor University |
| Grace Community Church, Goshen | Huntington College |
| Zion Missionary, Elkhart | Grace College |
| Blackhawk Baptist, Ft. Wayne | Indiana State University |
| The Lighthouse, Goshen |
