HJNO Mar/Apr 2025

+ 12 Contents March / April 2025 I Vol. 14, No. 2 DEPARTMENTS Healthcare Briefs ................................................................................. 41 Hospital Rounds ................................................................................... 57 Ad Index .................................................................................................... 66 CORRESPONDENTS Nursing ...................................................................................................... 46 Medicaid .................................................................................................. 48 Children’s Health ................................................................................ 50 Senior Health ........................................................................................ 52 Medical Society .................................................................................... 54 FEATURES Terror in New Orleans ................................................. 8 Roundtable with UMC’s Trauma Team Jeanne Marie Baudouin, Emergency Management Coordinator Misty Dufrene, ED Charge Nurse Jeffrey Elder, MD, Chief Medical Officer Patrick Greiffenstein, MD, Medical Director of the Trauma ICU Elizabeth Lacy, EMS Outreach Coordinator Meghan Maslanka, MD, Director of Emergency Management Reflections from the Front Lines of Trauma Response in New Orleans: A Trauma Psychologist’s Perspective on the New Year’s Day 2025 Mass Casualty Incident and the Path Forward .............................................. 22 Erika Rajo, PsyD Trauma Psychologist Director, Trauma Recovery Center University Medical Center New Orleans Ring Around the Rosie .................................................. 27 Philip Gatto What’s Wrong with Healthcare? Part 1: The History of Health Insurance .......... 34 Kenny J. Cole, MD, MHCDS Value-Based Healthcare Correspondent 27 OPINION Healthcare Without the Patient: Only in America ................................................................... 64 J. Benton Dupont, MD, FACS Clinical Professor of Surgery LSU Health Science Center New Orleans, Retired