Demographics

Note: Even though the Census Bureau is aware of the effects of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Census Bureau's 2000 population count for New Orleans of 484,674 is the last official number on record for New Orleans. Most current population numbers are estimates, seeing as though it is next to impossible to determine exactly how many people are currently living in the city as of December 2006 (seeing as residents have come back and thousands more Hispanics currently reside in the region than in July 2005). The Census Bureau, using their own methods, put 250,000 residents in New Orleans in late summer 2006. The Census Bureau's numbers are more in line with other population demographer numbers and mayor Ray Nagin stands firmly behind the Census Bureau's numbers. Janet Murguia, president and chief executive officer of the National Council of La Raza, the largest national Hispanic civil-rights and advocacy organization in the United States stated that there could be up to 120,000 Hispanic workers in New Orleans and according to the Census Bureau's population count would push the city's current population to more than 320,000. A more precise population number won't be known until the Census Bureau's official population count in 2010. Until then, all population estimates or "studies" (such as Louisiana Recovery Authority and the Louisiana Public Health Institute and even some population demographer numbers for New Orleans are mainly estimates and most likely will be met with criticism and seen as unstable and unreliable. Another November 2006 study by the Louisiana Public Health Institute -which was called "the most extensive population study since the Katrina Hurricane"- found New Orleans' population as near 50 percent of its size prior to Hurricane Katrina. The study estimated 200,665 people live in Orleans Parish, which comprises the city proper, compared to the 2000 U.S. Census population of 484,674. The study also found the three parish metro area, which includes Jefferson and hard-hit St. Bernard Parish, has a population of close to 700,000 or 800,000 people (the entire seven parish metro area has a population of 1.2 million). Official population numbers for New Orleans and surrounding areas are to be completed in 2010.

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Health System Profile

Open Hospitals in New Orleans Area (Region 1) Touro 1401 Foucher St New Orleans, LA 504-897-7011 Ochsner Westbank(formerly Meadowcrest) 2500 Belle Chasse Hwy Gretna, LA 504-392-3131 Children's 200 Henry Clay New Orleans, LA 504-899-9511 East Jeff Med Center 4200 Houma Blvd Metairie, LA 504-454-4000 Ochsner 1514 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 504-842-3000 Tulane University 1415 Tulane Ave New Orleans, LA 504-988-5263 West Jeff Med Center 1101 Medical Center Blvd Marrero, LA 504-347-5511 Tulane-Lakeside 4700 South I-10 Service Rd W Metairie, LA 504-780-8282 Ochsner Kenner(formerly Kenner Regional) 180 W. Esplanade Ave Kenner, LA 504-468-8600 MCL/NO University 2021 Perdido St. New Orleans, LA 504-903-3000 Ochsner Baptist (No ER), (formerly Memorial) 2700 Napoleon Ave. New Orleans, LA 504-899-9311 Source: http://www.gnocdc.org/maps/orleans_clinics.pdf