SMALL TALK

 QUOTABLE QUOTES

If there were no schools to take children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
- Edgar W. Howe

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
- Sydney J. Harris

 Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
-John Dewey

 As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
- Author Unknown

 I like a teacher who gives you something to think about besides homework.
- Lily Tomlin as "Edith Ann"

 The best teacher teaches from the heart, not from the book.
- Author Unknown

 There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.
- Author Unknown

 Anyone who thinks that the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
- Robert Gallagher

 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

 If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
-Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Debra Bok

 Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
- Doug Larson

 The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler

 The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward

  

Serving Those Impacted by

Hurricane Gustav

 

 

As with Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Woman's Hospital is once again serving as a point of refuge for evacuated women and infants from the affected areas, providing life saving, critical healthcare services.

 

Preparation for Gustav began a week in advance with arranging staffing, receiving additional supplies and equipment and transport of infants in the projected storm path. We cared for and helped to transport 32 infants evacuated from NICU's in the projected path of the storm. An additional 7 babies were evacuated from a local hospital when its generator failed.

 

 

We are caring for 45 infants from New Orleans, Houma, Morgan City, and other communities in southeast Louisiana. Of the 45 infants, 17 were born here at Woman's Hospital after evacuating from the storm. These precious patients - the tiniest victims of Hurricane Gustav - along with 22 adult patients and their families have been welcomed as a part of our family and are receiving the care and support they need.

 

 

We feel honored to be able to provide the needed healthcare and support services to the women, infants, and families impacted by Hurricane Gustav.

 

 

It is yet another way we are working to fulfill our simple but profound mission - to improve the health of women and infants.

 

 
 

NCD News: Gustav Votes

Hurricane Gustav picks brick number 4!!!

We are currently assessing the damage Gustav delivered to our construction site.  We'll keep you posted on the details.

Drainage requirements get special attention
Republished with permission from The Advocate

By TED GRIGGS, Advocate business writer
Published: Aug 10, 2008 - Page: 1F - UPDATED: 12:05am
 
When people talk about a new building, the discussions may touch on any number of topics, such as the beauty of the design, the view from the offices, or the interior finish. No one ever says, “Wow, awesome drainage filtration.”

Despite that, making sure that the rain water is cleaned before it goes into a bayou is “important stuff,” said Dana Brown, one of the principals in Brown+ Danos Landdesign Inc.

Federal, state and local water quality regulations that require the runoff water first be cleaned naturally, Brown said. Other regulations, primarily local, require Woman’s to make sure that water drains off the campus at the same rate after the hospital is built as before.

Brown+Danos is responsible for making sure Woman’s Hospital’s new campus meets the water quality regulations.

In order to comply with both sets of rules, Woman’s had to solve the drainage problems for the campus, and for some of the surrounding properties, project manager Stan Shelton said.

Woman’s is doing this, in part, by creating an 18-acre lake, constructing some wetlands and building 165,000 square feet of bioswales, Brown said.

What’s a bioswale? “Think of it as an eco-friendly ditch,” Brown said.

Except in this case, the ditch is wider and flatter and covered with water-loving plants, Brown said.

Or as Shelton said, basically the trees and landscaping in the parking lots are serving two purposes: one aesthetic and one practical.

The water is filtered as it flows through the bioswales, Brown said. Some water is used by the plants, some is absorbed by the ground, and some may drain down into a gravel sub-base beneath the plants, into a perforated pipe and then out.

Filtering the water also slows the rate of runoff, Brown said.

But the main idea is to make sure that the water is cleaner  when it reaches Bayou Manchac or the Amite River and eventually Lake Pontchartrain, Brown said.

“A lot of our water bodies are impaired, and the only way to clean them up is if every one of us, on new projects, tries these kinds of things,” Brown said, “and where we can retrofit other projects.”

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