Ithaca College

Erica K Weiss, a Registered Nurse on the fulltime staff at Hammond Health Center since 2001, underwent specialized disaster relief training then spent two weeks in New Orleans as a Red Cross volunteer this January.

Working in some of the poorest and hardest hit areas of the city with a team of nurses, social workers, and other volunteers from across the country, she provided medical care and helped residents locate critical health services that were still inaccessable 4 months after Katrina.
Monica Anderson, RN, Kathleen Davie, RN, and Vivian Lorenzo, MD will be travelling to New Orleans in May as medical volunteers with the international relief organization Heart to Heart. They will staff one of the organization's mobile clinics, providing primary care to neighborhoods devastated by the floods.